Over 4.6 billion years ago, the early Earth emerged from a swirling disk of gas and dust encircling the young sun. This ...

Learn more about the water molecules on the moon, which may trace their origins to the materials that made Earth and comets.

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies offering crucial insights into the solar system’s formation.

Researchers say they finally know how the fault that gave rise to Mount Denali, North America's highest mountain, formed.

Early interactions with the Earth may have heated up the Moon and caused it to remelt, producing new lunar rocks and erasing ...

Stunning star formations were captured during the holiday season by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the James Webb Space ...

Today, the Denali Fault rips apart some of the North American plate, but it was once a place where tectonic plates came ...

The Moon, our ancient companion, might be older than we think. While lunar rocks suggest an age of 4.35 billion years, new ...

NASA's Perseverance Rover conquers Lookout Hill on the Jezero Crater's rim, marking a milestone in its Martian mission.

The mountains were formed around 1.7 billion years ago amid a plate tectonic collision between the North American Plate and a ...

“At first, the Moon was close to Earth and its orbit was only concerned with what the planet was doing,” says Francis Nimmo, a geologist specializing in planetary formation and evolution at the ...

Wherever astronomers look, they see life’s raw materials—and hints at answers to one of the great mysteries of science.