"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.

About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia ...

Did you know that the Moon's mother made sacrifices to give birth to it? Around 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized planetary ...

A new study reveals surprising clues about the beginnings of subduction on Earth. The Hadean Eon, which lasted from 4.6 to ...

Moon has been Earth’s celestial companion for over four billion years. However, the formation of this natural satellite was catastrophic. It was long believed that the Moon was born from a cataclysmic ...

Jupiter’s early growth carved rings in the solar system, delayed meteorite formation, and kept planets like Earth in stable ...

A new scientific study is rewriting one of the most recognized origin stories in astronomy: how the Moon was formed may not ...

For the last 20 years, the best models of planet formation — or how planets grow from dust in a gas disk — have contradicted the very existence of Earth. These models assumed locally constant ...