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

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the Solar System formed, it took no more than three million years for the ...

NASA has issued an alert about an impending asteroid, one as large as a skyscraper, that is on a trajectory towards our ...

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

Experts have warned that NASA's asteroid deflection system could inadvertently send one towards Earth. The Double Asteroid ...

Impact history should be considered a key factor in the search for habitable Earth-like exoplanets. Southwest Research ...

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers ...

New research from Southwest Research Institute reveals that violent late-stage planetary collisions shaped Earth’s water, ...

Asteroid 2025 FA22, measuring up to 951 feet across, will make a close approach to Earth early Thursday according to NASA ...

A high-precision time measurement system based on the radioactive decay of manganese-53 was used to determine the precise age. This isotope was present in the early Solar System and decayed to ...

The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles within this cloud collided and clumped together, driven by gravity and ...