It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

Ancient Moon dust, meteorite traces and Apollo samples are helping NASA scientists rethink where Earth’s water truly came ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

Tree rings hold clues about ancient solar storms. New research shows tree growth and carbon storage can shift those signals across years.

Earth is often described as a water world, but how that water arrived has never been settled. For years, the focus has rested ...

New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.

Astronomers have discovered powerful magnetic fields steering gas, dust, and star formation in a dramatic galaxy merger.

Scientists have discovered the largest organic molecule containing sulfur — a key ingredient for life — ever identified in interstellar space. The researchers call the discovery a “missing link” in ...

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

The North American craton actually dips near the Rockies rather than forming a sharp vertical step as previously believed.

Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests Earth’s continents didn’t begin growing until hundreds of millions of years ...