About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

A new peer-reviewed study finds that early planet formations were assembled from fragments of earlier bodies within the Solar System.

A new take on the origins of Earth’s water claims to reveal the composition of the Earth in the first few million years after ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...

An asteroid floating in our solar system has been discovered to have a very weird and unique double moon—and it might just change the way we think about how planets form. The asteroid—officially ...

Concentrated hydrogen in the galaxy’s spiral arms can be locked away in zircon crystals, providing startling clues about the ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

The researchers analyzed lunar samples that had remained unopened since they were collected by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972.

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

The disks of dust and gas that surround young stars are the formation sites of planets. New images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) reveal never-before-seen details in the ...