Astronomers were slow at spotting a small giraffe-sized asteroid that zoomed past our planet on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, ...

For years, scientists have debated how long Mars could have supported life. While it’s been well-established that the planet ...

In late October, Hurricane Melissa (that should have been called “Godzilla”) battered western Jamaica with 185-mile-an-hour winds. It tossed the roofs of ...

The idea of artificially lowering the planet’s temperature is gaining supporters and hitting political opposition.

The outer planets of the Solar System are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn’s moon Enceladus, are ...

An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.

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 ...

Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.

If you know any bit of information about how the moon was created, new research indicates that everyone has believed wrong.

A new study uncovers hidden chemical clues showing that fire played a bigger role in the Early Triassic than scientists once ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed everything—reshaping Earth, forming the Moon, and scattering clues across ...

Jake Korell’s debut novel 'The Second World' envisions a newly independent Mars shaped by real space-policy debates, ...