Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

19, 2024 — Scientists have unveiled groundbreaking research on the origins of lunar water, offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar ...

The knock-on changes from a super-Earth – dubbed Phaeton by the researchers – were intriguing. "If it's one or two Earth masses, which is still a pretty big planet, our inner Solar System ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary ...

Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

Scientists believe the exoplanet HD 20794 d, six times the mass of Earth, could harbour liquid water on its surface.

Aliens could be lurking in hard-to-reach spots on other worlds, according to a new study. The research looked at the oceans ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.