A new study published in Science Advances reveals that Earth’s life-friendly conditions may never have existed without a monumental cosmic accident. Researchers from the University of Bern ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New research suggests that most of the solar system's inner rocky planets once orbited the sun in ...

Earth is so far the only known planet on which life exists—with liquid water and a stable atmosphere. However, the conditions were not conducive to life when it formed. The gas-dust cloud from which ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity. The Sun, planets, and eventually Earth formed out of the cloud. But when did ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid lifelessness, did our planet become warm, hospitable, and life-sustaining? The answer ...

A new analysis of Earth and moon rocks appears to unseat a leading theory of how the moon formed. Since the 1970s, scientists have hypothesized that the moon was created billions of years ago when a ...

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New simulations suggest that up to four of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth and a long-lost world, once orbited in mathematical harmony around the infant sun. Four of the solar system ...