The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...

The Giant Impact Hypothesis has long fascinated scientists as the leading explanation for the Moon's formation. Around 4.5 ...

One of the oldest unsolved riddles in planetary science concerns the origin of the moon. Over a century ago, George Darwin proposed that tidal and centrifugal forces on a rapidly rotating proto-Earth ...

High-energy electrons in the Earth's plasma may be contributing to the formation of water on the surface of the moon, a study found. The findings were published by a team of researchers, led by a ...

Ancient zircon crystals hold chemical clues that of freshwater may have existed on Earth soon after it formed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

How much of Earth's compositional variation dates to processes that occurred during planet formation remains an unanswered question. High-precision tungsten isotopic data from rocks from two large ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

A planet-forming disk with more water than all of Earth's oceans has been discovered. The disk, which is located in the constellation Taurus, is 450 light-years away from Earth. Astronomers used the ...

Earth's first continents may have emerged from the planet's primordial oceans much earlier than we thought, just six hundred million years after the planet formed, new research suggests. The ...

(Nanowerk News) A team of researchers, led by a University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa planetary scientist, discovered that high energy electrons in Earth’s plasma sheet are contributing to weathering ...