Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

New Curtin University research has uncovered a striking link between the structure of our galaxy and the evolution of Earth's ...

A high-precision time measurement system based on the radioactive decay of manganese-53 was used to determine the precise age ...

A n asteroid the size of a skyscraper is approaching Earth at a sprightly 24,136 miles per hour—and will be at its closest to ...

One of the worlds in the TRAPPIST-1 system, a mere 40 light-years away, just might be clad in a life-supporting atmosphere.

“The most likely trigger was an impact on a larger asteroid parent of Ryugu, which fractured the rock and melted buried ice, ...

There's some bizarre action going on with 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar object which some have claimed could be an 'alien threat ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured a solar-system-size corona around a distant supermassive black hole, ...

The third interstellar object ever observed is in our neighborhood—for now. And, asteroid Bennu could contain dust from ...

The comet is known as 3I-Atlas and is currently 238 million miles from Earth. According to NASA, the comet is expected to ...

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...