Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars – may have formed from two rings around the young sun, rather than a single disc ...

Earth’s internal structure continues to reveal details that reshape established scientific explanations about the planet’s ...

Scientists say they have uncovered new clues in Australia about when plate tectonics began on Earth, the only known planet to ...

DNA from a distance ...

A strange flicker from a star 11,000 light-years away reveals evidence of two planets crashing together in a rare cosmic ...

The crew members of the nine Apollo missions to the Moon remain, to this day, the farthest-flung human beings in history. The Moon is, on average, 250,000 miles (400,000km) from the surface of the ...

A new study from Harvard geoscientists reports the oldest direct evidence yet of plate motion, dating to 3.5 billion years ago. In a study published March 19 in Science, the researchers found that ...

NASA’s Psyche mission, launched in 2023, will study a $10,000 quadrillion asteroid, with new research showing that its ...

Cone you believe this? The mysterious party hat-shaped object on Mars which perplexed experts has been identified as a naturally occurring rock shape, attributed to the Martian winds which have been ...

When we think of asteroids, we almost immediately think of giant rocks bouncing around like the iconic chase scene in "The Empire Strikes Back," and we often hear how they are remnants from the birth ...

Plate tectonics is not just about earthquakes and volcanoes. It is deeply connected to the conditions that made life possible ...