Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, the young solar system was a swirling cloud of gas and dust that formed the first asteroids ...

Earth has reportedly gained a second moon, a small near-Earth object designated 2025 PN7, which is now classified as a ...

Earth just got a new tag-along in space — a little asteroid named 2025 PN7. NASA confirmed this week that the rock, ...

A newly discovered space rock zoomed safely by Earth on Wednesday (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance ...

The new moon will see dark skies for the peak of the Orionid meteor shower, while three days will pass in front of the red ...

Rocks from Canada, Greenland, and Hawai'i have less of the already rare isotope potassium-40 than those from the rest of the ...

For years, scientists believed the “giant impact” that formed the Moon melted and reshaped the entire young Earth, erasing ...

Millions of years before blue oceans and wandering continents, the Earth in its early days was a molten, tumultuous planet — ...

MIT scientists have discovered ancient rock samples from Greenland, Canada, and Hawaii exhibiting a rare potassium-40 deficit ...

Earth has a long, 4.5 billion history full of momentous twists and turns. Multiple prominent events played leading roles in ...

The James Webb Telescope measured a potential moon-forming disk encircling an exoplanet, NASA recently announced, inviting ...