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

The formation of Mercury remains an unsolved mystery. The planet closest to the sun has a disproportionately large metallic ...

New simulations suggest that Mercury's formation could be the result of a rare collision between two celestial bodies of ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once perceived as a threat, is no longer on a collision course with the planet Earth. However, there is a ...

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 ...

The innermost planet in the solar system has an unusually high iron content, but no explanation has yet been found. Now there is a new theory ...

An asteroid has a slight chance of hitting the moon in 2032. Here's what to know about 2024 YR4 and a way to stop that.

What if Uranus and Earth were on a collision course? This video explores the science behind planetary collisions and shows ...

An international study led by researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil has identified a little-known but ...

New research warns that if we don't hit an asteroid in exactly the right spot, it could end up on a collision course with ...

Florida Tech astrophysicist Howard Chen is offering new insights to help aid NASA's search for life beyond Earth. His latest theoretical work investigates the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, one of the ...

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