Scientists have long believed that the Moon was formed by a massive object crashing into the Earth. But what was that thing ...

A collision between Earth and a massive Mars-sized protoplanet likely caused the formation of our moon. Now scientists from the Max Planck Institute suggest that doomed planet was likely a rowdy ...

Apollo samples provide evidence: Researchers analyzed Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions and, for the first time, used their iron isotope ratios to trace where Theia originally formed.

"During the early solar system's game of cosmic billiards, Earth was struck by a neighbor,” said Dauphas. “It was a lucky shot. Without the moon's steadying influence on our planet's tilt, the climate ...

We've always known Mars as the Red Planet - but it turns out, we may have had the reason why wrong. If so, it could revise much of what we know about the history of our smaller neighbor planet. In a ...

Around the world, phytoplankton in the upper ocean help to cycle key nutrients and regulate Earth's climate by absorbing ...

Australia’s Fortescue (ASX: FMG) has agreed to settle its high-stakes lawsuit accusing former executives of stealing company data to build their green iron start-up Element Zero. The iron ore miner ...

Along with advancing lung health research, neutron research at ORNL enables researchers to make groundbreaking discoveries that support critical areas, such as artificial intelligence, quantum and ...

Billionaire Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue has settled its bitter legal stoush with a group of its former executives, whom the mining giant spied on after accusing them of stealing sensitive information ...