An analysis of feldspar crystals within the oldest magmatic rocks in Australia has provided a unique insight into Earth's ...

The pale half- moon shape at the base of your nails, called the lunula, is more than just a nail feature. It can reflect how ...

In contrast, the recent Brown study utilizes “micro-analytical techniques,” focusing on individual sulfide grains, Dottin ...

It's largely agreed that the moon was created around 4.5 billion years ago when a protoplanet collided with early molten ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first detailed look at a carbon-rich disk surrounding the exoplanet CT Cha ...

Scientists have studied our solar system, which is home to eight major planets and more than 400 known moons orbiting six of them, to understand the new phase of the moon formation observed around ...

But as researchers have discovered more moonlike objects in our solar system—including 128 moons orbiting Saturn just this ...

The Moon likely formed from a giant impact with a sister planet, influencing Earth’s seasons and habitability.

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

The discovery that molecules of methane and ethane can worm their way into the crystal lattice of frozen hydrogen cyanide has ...

In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ...