Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...

These images mark an early milestone in the mission, confirming that OSIRIS-APEX is healthy and on course for its 2029 ...

Learn how sulfur-based molecules essential to life may have formed before the first living systems appeared.

Scientists are sharpening their forecasts for how long Earth can remain a comfortable home for complex organisms, and the ...

Eros appears to buzz the Andromeda Galaxy, courtesy of a livestream hosted by the Virtual Telescope Institute in partnership ...

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...

About 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) below our feet, two enormous patches of strange rock sit above Earth’s core. New ...

An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.

Coral reefs have long been celebrated as biodiversity hotspots—but new research shows they have also played a much deeper ...

Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...

Chinese researchers have discovered that interstitial carbon in iron-carbon alloys behaves in a superionic, liquid-like state under Earth’s core pressure and temperature conditions. Beneath Earth’s ...