In March 2023, an astrophysical blast of γ-rays named GRB 230307A was registered as the second-brightest known burst of its kind. Astronomers, however, became entranced by the faint, colourful glow of ...

Earth's first continents may have emerged from the planet's primordial oceans much earlier than we thought, just six hundred million years after the planet formed, new research suggests. The ...

Isotope ratios found in meteorites suggest that a supernova exploded nearby while the Sun and Solar System were still forming. But the blast wave from a supernova that close could have potentially ...

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Washington, DC—Earth’s potassium arrived by meteoritic delivery service finds new research led by Carnegie’s Nicole Nie and Da Wang. Their work, published in Science, shows that some primitive ...

The planetary collision believed to have created the Moon may help to explain why scientists can't agree how old the Earth's core is. "You basically had two episodes of core formation," says Wood.

Scientists have performed a micro-probe analysis of the core and outer layers of a pea-sized piece of a meteorite some 4.57 billion years old to reconstruct the history of its formation, providing the ...

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