In the process, she calculated when several distant planets’ continents were born ... By analysing how many materials like this are present on Earth and on other planets, we are also able to estimate ...

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that our planet may have once had a ring system around 466 million years ago.

A Mars scientist shares the inside story of the NASA Curiosity rover's poignant first photo of Earth and Mars moon Phobos ...

The discovery of an Earth-mass planet around a white dwarf based on gravitational microlensing could offer clues to the ...

A weird number of craters are located close to the equator, and the odds that this is random are incredibly low, researchers ...

For about 4.5 billion years, our planet has circled the sun on a stable, rhythmic path. Each of Earth's orbits takes ...

Evidence suggests Earth had a ring system 466 million years ago, causing a surge in meteorite impacts and possibly ...

New simulations reveal that there is an extremely small chance that the "city-killer" asteroid Apophis could be nudged onto a ...

The gigantic asteroid 2024 ON, about the size of a blue whale, will fly close to Earth next Tuesday, missing our planet by ...

Scientists aren't sure if 2024 PT5 is an asteroid. At roughly 10 meters in length, 2024 PT5 is difficult to spot without a ...

The Earth has pulled in moons of this type before but none have ever stuck around as long as the moon we know.

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth's ...