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

Three celestial bodies will meet up for one night in September in a cosmic conjunction that should be widely visible in the ...

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers now confirm that this small body, named 2025 PN7, is traveling in a special ...

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

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

The pilots will have five chances to snag the capsule in midair. Military pilots were unavailable for a mission that required ...

On the Red Planet, aurorae glow green because the charged particles collide with oxygen atoms high above Mars. They may be ...

Samples retrieved from asteroid Ryugu indicate that it once had flowing water in far greater volumes than previously thought ...

Planetary scientists believe they can now predict the green glow of an aurora in the night sky above Mars, and they have the ...

Astronomers have directly spotted a rare young planet, WISPIT 2b, still forming within the gap of a dusty ringed disk around ...

The greatest challenge facing astrobiologists is that there is only one planet known to us that has life. Of all the bodies ...

Since the first discovery of planets beyond the solar system in 1995, more than 6,000 exoplanets have been identified. Many ...