Earth's early history is marked by massive collisions with other objects, including planetesimals. One of the defining events in our…
Lava tubes and chambers attract a lot of attention as potential sites for bases on the Moon and Mars. They…
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured fascinating images of a feature on the Moon that could be a collapsed lava…
A new study from Caltech shows that the moon experiences "moonquakes" with precise regularity, like a "lunar alarm clock."
It's widely accepted that Earth's plate tectonics are a key factor in life's emergence. Plate tectonics allows heat to move…
A new study by a team of French researchers has confirmed that the Moon has a solid inner core.
Our planet hasn't always been the warm, inviting place we know today. At least five times in its history, Earth…
Astronomers have developed a way to cheaply and easily measure the radiation exposure experienced by airline crews over Africa. (more…)
Based on seismic data from about 200 earthquakes in the past decade, a team of Australian scientists found evidence of…
A new NASA study shows how samples obtained by Perseverance could have been shaped by asteroid impacts when Mars was…