What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar ...
Hidden deep in ancient rocks, scientists have found the surviving traces of Earth’s first form—unchanged for 4.5 billion ...
Recent scientific discoveries have unearthed evidence of a cataclysmically destroyed planet, fragments of which contributed ...
As best the origins of Earth are understood, we're all just a bunch of stardust, and new observations from the JWST lend credence to that theory.
NASA has confirmed that Earth has gained a temporary cosmic companion in the form of asteroid 2025 PN7, which will orbit our ...
How can the metal content of stars influence the formation of Earth-like exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as an international team of ...
About 4.6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity. The Sun, planets, and eventually Earth formed out of the cloud. But when did ...
Violent collisions between the growing Earth and other objects in the solar system generated significant amounts of iron vapor, according to a new study by LLNL scientist Richard Kraus and colleagues.
Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...
In the beginning, when planets were newborn, they glowed like furnaces, vast oceans of molten rock wrapped in heavy blankets ...