In the 1950s, Stanley Miller and Nobel laureate Harold Urey conducted experiments at the University of Chicago in which they ...

NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks and preview what's coming in 2029.

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A tiny object far beyond Pluto, newly discovered by the Subaru Telescope, could reshape our understanding of the early Solar System. Named 2023 KQ14, this rare “sednoid” follows an unusual orbit that ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

While trivia nights aren’t really my thing, I like to think I know a little about a lot. And, throw a weather-related ...

Flat Earth conspiracies seem to pop up everywhere, but how do we actually measure the shape of our planet? Enter geodesy, the science that defines Earth's size, shape, and precise coordinates. From ...

Expanding Earth: The Strange (Pre-Tectonics) Hypothesis That The Earth Is Expanding Like A Balloon According to one idea, the Earth was ejected from a gas giant.

By Kelly R. MacGregor - Professor of Geology, Macalester College Since the ancient Greeks made observations of the Moon and the sky, scientists have known that the Earth is a sphere. We've all seen ...

Astronomers witness the in situ spheroid formation in distant submillimetre-bright galaxies Date: December 5, 2024 Source: Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe Summary ...

Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not circular, but an ellipse. The perimeter of Earth’s orbit is roughly 584 million miles (940 million km).