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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...

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

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