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The timing of Earth's early formation points to a planet that started out dry. So, life’s essential building blocks arrived ...

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

About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

Before becoming the only planet in our solar system teeming with life, Earth was a desolate, stony globe — dry as dust and ...

The moon's influence is huge, both for human civilization and life as a whole. Its destruction would have catastrophic ...

NASA is tracking a massive asteroid headed towards Earth named 2021 R16, which will come remarkably close to our planet as it ...

Imagine a planet much like Earth, except instead of green trees dotting its swaths of land, two species of flowers—black daisies and white daisies—are the dominant plant life. The flowers are ...

A new study used mathematical formulas and demonstrated that it’s highly unlikely life began on Earth. Instead, the ...

Need a refresher about 3I/ATLAS? Here's everything to know about the interstellar object, including when the latest observations will be made.