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

While much attention is focused on the mysteries of deep space, there is an equally intriguing mystery closer to home, but in the opposite direction: deep underground. One particular mystery arose ...

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 ...

Rather than the water reacting to form hydrous minerals or just evaporating ... expected," said Associate Professor Tsuyoshi Iizuka from the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at the University ...

“The idea that Ryugu-like objects held on to ice for so long is remarkable,” he added. “It suggests that the building blocks of Earth were far wetter than we imagined. This forces us to rethink the ...

Between 800,000 and 430,000 years ago, Earth went through a series of fairly gentle warm-ups that scientists are now calling ...

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Damanveer Singh Grewal suggests that planetesimals in the early solar system emerged from a succession of high-energy ...

Comets SWAN and Lemmon will both swing by Earth and appear bright in the sky near the end of October. Here’s how to see them.

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