Earth and Mars emerged from the same young solar system around 4.5 billion years ago, yet they may have been assembled ...

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

Discover the dramatic forces creating spectacular weather on neighboring planets and moons. Out in the solar system, the weather gets wacky – with globe-spanning dust storms, monsoons of liquid ...

And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.