Scientists have long wondered why Earth's overall makeup doesn't fully match the mix of materials found in ancient meteorites ...
Hidden deep in ancient rocks, scientists have found the surviving traces of Earth’s first form—unchanged for 4.5 billion ...
Recent scientific discoveries have unearthed evidence of a cataclysmically destroyed planet, fragments of which contributed ...
As best the origins of Earth are understood, we're all just a bunch of stardust, and new observations from the JWST lend credence to that theory.
An analysis of feldspar crystals within the oldest magmatic rocks in Australia has provided a unique insight into Earth's ...
New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...
Violent collisions between the growing Earth and other objects in the solar system generated significant amounts of iron vapor, according to a new study by LLNL scientist Richard Kraus and colleagues.
How can the metal content of stars influence the formation of Earth-like exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as an international team of ...
An asteroid floating in our solar system has been discovered to have a very weird and unique double moon—and it might just change the way we think about how planets form. The asteroid—officially ...
Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...
The findings suggest that similar moonlets could orbit distant exoplanets and their moons. researchers said. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...