A study by researchers at the University of Oxford, University of Leeds, and University College London has identified a new ...

The Earth formed relatively quickly from the cloud of dust and gas around the sun, trapping water and gases in the planet’s mantle, according to research published Dec. 5 in the journal Nature. Apart ...

Dust from meteorites that crash-landed on Earth have revealed that Earth's precursor, known as proto-Earth, formed much faster than previously thought, a new study finds.

NASA just released a pretty amazing GIF from a brand new, solar wind-monitoring satellite DSCOVR. From one million miles away, the satellite captured the far side of the moon as it passed in front ...

Scientists can use modern rocks, moon samples and meteorites to figure out when and how the Earth and moon formed, and what they might once have looked like.

The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other ...