Imagine a massive celestial body colliding with Uranus at high speed; this impact could have 'overturned' Uranus, causing its ...

Learn why the Moon moving away from Earth affects tides and Earth's rotation. Discover this fascinating lunar phenomenon and ...

Recent scientific research has unearthed an intriguing proposition that Earth may have once been orbited by two moons instead ...

Curiosity Point 1: A catastrophic event turned Venus into a hellish world?

NASA has responded to speculation that mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is actually an alien starship preparing to invade Earth.

The dwarf planet Pluto and its five known natural satellites (Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra) may be frigid, but ...

New research warns that if we don't hit an asteroid in exactly the right spot, it could end up on a collision course with ...

Imagine taking a trip to the outer reaches of our Solar System, to a place few have ever seen up close. Uranus, the icy giant, is a world of extremes, violent, cold, and unlike any other planet you ...

On Mars, things are a lot more static. It’s a single-plate planet with incredibly slow mixing. When InSight peered into the ...

Learn more about tides and tidal bulge, and how they’re contributing to the moon drifting away.

To avoid this scenario, Makadia's team plotted the best spots on an asteroid's surface to avoid the keyhole. Their technique ...

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...