Scientists have long believed that the Moon was formed by a massive object crashing into the Earth. But what was that thing ...

When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth.

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Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though ...

Later in December, the 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet will get as close to Earth as it ever will. Here's what to know.

The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are known to have oceans of liquid water between the ice shell and the rocky ...

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed predicted by standard cosmology. Using highly sensitive data from multiple ...

Three more papers on the samples brought back from asteroid Bennu reveal the place contains the building blocks of DNA and ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

To our best of our understanding, the Moon formed from Earth following a colossal impact. A Mars-sized world we nicknamed Theia slammed and merged with the primordial Earth, throwing material into ...

Meteorites are like a time machine and spacecraft all in one. Discover how our scientists use rare specimens in the meteorite ...