Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...

James Webb Space Telescope captures HH 30’s disc, revealing dust movement, jets, and planetary formation processes.

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.

Researchers found How Violent Events During Earth's Formation Led to the Scarcity of Moderately Volatile Elements (MVE) Like ...

This finding has fundamental implications for determining when and how life could have originated on our planet. One of the goals of ... events that occurred during the final stage of Earth’s core ...

Water, one of the essential ingredients for life on Earth, did not appear on the planet until after the moon-forming event, a new study claims ...

At 4,000 miles long and 30–40 miles wide, the East African Rift (EAR) system is one of the geologic wonders of the world.

An artist's conception of a gas giant world (the large planet ... our planet formation models revisited," Peter Smith, an astrophysicist at Arizona State University’s School Of Earth and Space ...

NASA's Perseverance rover collects Martian soil samples from Jezero Crater, revealing potential signs of past life on Mars.