Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' ...

The researchers attribute occasional upward spikes to asteroids that broke apart and sent a tail of dust toward Earth. Most scientists assume the Earth was covered by a magma ocean for millions of ...

Asteroids have significantly impacted Earth's history through numerous collisions, shaping the planet's geography and ...

The dust particles were brought together by the forces of drag ... Where the present-day Earth has oceans covering much of its surface, the early Earth was covered in a magma ocean - a layer of molten ...

I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted ... Dark comets are small near-earth objects that do not have any dust clouds around them, which makes them look like an asteroid, says Taylor.

After all, the entire planet is covered with clouds ... raining from the sky. Epic dust storms raging for months on end. And giant hurricanes that could swallow Earth whole.

Whether out-of-the-box thinking or a sign of desperation, scientists on Wednesday proposed the regular transport of moon dust to a gravity point between Earth and Sun to temper the ravages of ...