New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

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Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. For geologists, a continent is a large area of thick continental crust ...

PT5, initially identified as a near-Earth asteroid, is believed to be a lunar fragment due to its unique orbit and mineral ...

A “lost asteroid” that hasn’t been seen since it was first discovered in 2007 has some scientists worried about the potential of an Earth-bound collision this year, reports indicate.