Imagine if Earth's history had a mystery novel, and one of its biggest unsolved puzzles was: Where did all the nitrogen go?

A new study led by Adrien Saurety and Razvan Caracas from the Paris Institute of Earth Physics sheds light on the significant ...

Originally, the hypothesis was that Theia gave the Earth a glancing blow, and the proto-Earth and Theia lost pieces ending up as one or two moons that eventually formed the Moon. It was thought that a ...

The universe is understood to have formed about 13.8 billion years ago, and Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago. As we ...

Astronomers have tracked a mysterious magnetar, SGR 0501+4516, across the Milky Way, revealing it may not have formed in a ...

More information: K.R. Bermingham et al, The non-carbonaceous nature of Earth's late-stage accretion, Geochimica et ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in that galaxy is rotating.

Capture theory suggests that the Moon was a wandering body (like an asteroid) that formed elsewhere in the solar system and was captured by Earth's gravity as it passed nearby. The accretion ...