accompany the short but spectacular lives of massive, luminous stars. The new theory is described in a “Perspectives” article appearing in the May 21 issue of Science. The article was written by a ...

(The Hill) – The formation of the Earth may have looked more like a fast, inevitable landslide than like a slow series of occasional cataclysms, as scientists have long theorized, according to ...

Troy, N.Y. – Geochemists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are challenging commonly held ideas about how gases are expelled from the Earth. Their theory, which is described in the Sept. 20 issue of ...

Scientists widely agree that an ancient planet likely smashed into Earth as it was forming billions of years ago, spewing debris that coalesced into the moon that decorates our night sky today. The ...

A rare kind of meteorite known as enstatite chondrite resembles Earth's composition roughly 4.5 billion years ago. The key to their counterargument resides in a rare type of space rock called ...

Scientists have identified three Earth-sized planets orbiting two stars in the TOI-2267 system. Remarkably, planets transit ...