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

The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found.

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 ...

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

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

A study conducted on a near-Earth asteroid could call into question details we thought we knew about how our planet's oceans ...

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

Astronomers have identified a tiny quasi-moon, 2025 PN7, orbiting near Earth for about 60 years. This 62-foot-wide near-Earth ...

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

A team of researchers, including those at the University of Tokyo, discovered that liquid water once flowed on the asteroid ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and ...