"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...

The Mechanics of Earth's Spin Earth rotates once in about 24 hours with respect to the Sun, but once every 23 hours, 56 ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia ...

When comet 3I/ATLAS was first spotted streaking across the sky in July 2025, it looked like another fleeting astronomical ...

A lone man walks across an expanse of ice; a mottled tundra; desert badlands. The single human figure becomes a focal point ...

Earth has picked up a new traveling companion – an asteroid named 2025 PN7 that now moves through space in step with us. This ...

Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside ...

The Planetary Defence System of the ESA earlier identified the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid. The current tally since the ESA ...

Asteroid 2025 VP1 is hurtling through space at more than 18,300 miles per hour, the space agency has reported.

Last year, the most violent geomagnetic storm to strike Earth in over two decades did more than disrupt GPS systems and ...