Deep under our feet—almost 1,800 miles below the surface—scientists have found two huge and mysterious structures that may ...

A Rutgers researcher and collaborators have linked unusual geological anomalies to Earth’s molten origins and its unique habitability. For many years, researchers have struggled to understand two ...

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.

Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside ...

Earth and the planetary object that gave rise to the Moon were likely born in the same region of the solar system.

In the chaotic infancy of the Solar System, a protoplanet the size of Mars called Theia smashed into the Earth and formed the ...

They went through the isotope mixtures in Earth and lunar rocks instead of using highly technical models. They dabbled in ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...

A new study suggests that structures at the core-mantle boundary are remnants of an early basal magma ocean linked to Earth's ...

For decades, planetary seismology has run into a baffling enigma nearly 2,900 kilometers deep, right at the boundary between ...

Searching for life on other planets requires more than just measuring their distances from their stars. A future NASA ...