In a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment, researchers at the University of Rochester were able to use magnetism to determine, for the first time, when ...

Understanding how our solar system managed to pull off the magic trick that is our planet and how other star systems form and evolve could help us find the most likely sources for extraterrestrial ...

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

New work offers fresh evidence supporting the supernova shock wave theory of our solar system’s origin. According to one longstanding theory, our Solar System’s formation was triggered by a shock wave ...

Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...

The solar system and its place in the galaxy -- The origin of the solar system -- A history of solar system studies -- The Sun -- The solar wind -- Mercury -- Venus: atmosphere -- Venus: surface and ...

Parker Solar Probe Makes History by Touching the Sun 8 million miles above the Sun's surface on December 24, 2024, traveling ...

SETI Institute communications specialist Beth Johnson welcomed Professor Dagomar Degroot, environmental historian at Georgetown University, for a discussion on his new book Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean ...

A newly discovered cluster of objects called the “inner kernel” of the Kuiper belt could teach us about the early history of ...

One of the most elegant theories about the origins of life on our planet is that it was kick-started by a delivery from outer ...