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 team of scientists from Brown University has discovered new sulphur isotopes unlike any found on Earth, providing fresh insight into the early formation of the Moon.The researchers analysed lunar ...

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

Astronaut Don Pettit, who is known for blending science with visual storytelling, recorded the scene during his current ...

When astronauts returned from NASA's final Apollo moon mission in 1972, some of the samples they collected were sealed and ...

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 ...

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

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

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

For a long time, researchers believed that a certain group of freshwater fish developed their super-hearing abilities after ...

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

A 2017 satellite photo shows the stark contrast along the boundary between a giant field of golden "star dunes" and a barren ...