Researchers used atomic-scale computer simulations to discover the importance of carbon in forming a solid planetary core.

A rare kind of meteorite known as enstatite chondrite resembles Earth's composition roughly 4.5 billion years ago. The key to their counterargument resides in a rare type of space rock called ...

Researchers in Japan have found that the parent asteroid of Ryugu, a near-Earth asteroid, retained water in ice form for ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid lifelessness, did our planet become warm, hospitable, and life-sustaining? The answer ...