Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation ...

Recent studies have revealed that the Moon is rusting, a surprising phenomenon attributed to “wind” from Earth carrying water and oxygen necessary for rust formation. This interaction, influenced by ...

The shocking discovery of hematite on the Moon was made a few years ago. Hematite forms from the oxidation of iron, a process ...

Researchers say oxygen drifting out of Earth’s atmosphere may be reaching the Moon and turning iron in its soil into hematite, a reddish mineral also known as rust ...

Meteorites that have impacted our planet over the years have brought with them a mystery: Earth's atmosphere appears to be missing large amounts of xenon. The rest of this article is behind a paywall.

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

Planets are not living organisms and, like molecules, do not have to be biological. But at least one is deeply biological in ...

An Earth-sized planet just 40 light-years away could be a viable home for alien life, scientists have discovered. The planet TRAPPIST-1e orbits its star in the so-called Goldilocks Zone, where ...

(While the iron oxide on the Moon does not turn it red, to go along with the concept of 'rusting', the thumbnail image — ...