Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the Solar System formed, it took no more than three million years for the ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is thought to have a lot of liquid water under an icy and rocky crust, thanks to ...

A newly discovered distant object that astronomers have dubbed “The Cliff” could solve a riddle posed by some of the first ...

The bright meteor was witnessed by by some Scots as it streaked across the sky in the early hours of Thursday July 3.

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

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming discs around young stars could become the seeds ...

Many projects such as solar panels and electric school buses may not meet new deadlines for tax credits under the “big, ...

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

The discovery that water existed in liquid form a billion years after the parent body of Ryugu formed came from the study of ...

Initially, the comet appeared red in all observations. However, recent images show it now glowing green. This color shift ...

New images reveal interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS beginning to grow a signature tail as it zooms closer to the sun ahead of a ...

The eyes of every astronomer widened this year when an interstellar traveler was discovered in our solar system.