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

For a long time, researchers believed that a certain group of freshwater fish developed their super-hearing abilities after ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

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 ...

Liquid water on asteroids reshapes how we understand the early solar system. A group of scientists, including researchers ...

Experience the magical Northern Lights, a stunning natural light show caused by solar wind and ion collisions.

When astronauts returned from NASA's final Apollo moon mission in 1972, some of the samples they collected were sealed and ...

A study led by Howard Chen looks to explain what NASA space telescopes are missing in the search for life beyond Earth.

A pair of diamonds that formed hundreds of kilometers deep in Earth’s malleable mantle both contain specks of materials that form in completely opposing chemical environments—a combination so unusual ...

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how ...

New lunar samples from the far side reveal it formed from cooler magma than the near side, confirming the Moon’s interior is not uniform. Researchers suggest fewer heat-producing elements on the far ...

Scientists found that carbon enabled Earth’s core to solidify. Without it, the inner core may not exist. A team of scientists ...