nearly 8 times the size of Earth, that don’t orbit a ‘Goldilocks’ star. These are the closest candidates to Earth to support human life on another planet. A year on, these red dwarf stars ...

Another puzzle within Earth's inner depths pertains to the origin of Large Low Velocity Provinces (LLVPs), which are peculiar regions extending for thousands of kilometres at the base of the mantle.

Narrator: 4 and a half billion years ago, clouds of cosmic dust and gas which were orbiting the Sun collided into one another ... is only a quarter the size of the Earth. Gravity holds it in ...

Earth grew to its final size through one last major collision with another Mars-sized object. This last collision, also known as the “moon-forming impact,” was so large that—in addition to adding lots ...

New research suggests that Sputnik Planitia, also called Tombaugh Regio, is the result of a massive smash with another planetary body a little over 400 miles in diameter, roughly the size of ...