A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

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

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, ...

There is a direct link between Earth's crust formation and meteorite impacts influenced by the Milky Way's structure, as ...

While its star projector leaves a lot to be desired, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a fantastic educational tool for kids, with its solar system model, complete with talking ...

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

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 ...

X-ray scans reveal rare chemical signatures in asteroid grains that hint at water, organics and the building blocks of life.

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