About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

A recent studypublished in Naturepresents compelling evidence of ancient planetary material buried deep within Earth’s mantle. Researchers have uncovered two massive dense structures beneath Africa ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...

Could a passing star be on a collision course with our solar system and, eventually, Earth? It’s difficult to know if such an outcome is likely. Recently, researchers have found the Milky Way likely ...

Photos taken by the Italian LICIACube, short for the LICIA CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids. These offer the closest, most detailed observations of NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) ...