Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

Ancient crystals reveal that Earth began recycling its crust and forming continents billions of years earlier than scientists ...

Dinosaurs had such an immense impact on Earth that their sudden extinction led to wide-scale changes in landscapes—including ...

Changes in rock formations from before and after the mass extinction event 66 million years ago may reflect how dinosaurs ...

A study by researchers at the University of Oxford, University of Leeds, and University College London has identified a new ...

Hayabusa2 asteroid Ryugu samples reveal liquid water flowed through rock over one billion years after formation.

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

The question of how life appeared on Earth has intrigued generations. Some researchers are now putting forward an unexpected ...

The discovery by the six-wheeled rover in Jezero Crater represents one of the best pieces of evidence to date about the ...

The greatest challenge facing astrobiologists is that there is only one planet known to us that has life. Of all the bodies ...

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...