Contrary to what some people think, the Earth isn’t the center of the Universe. But what if it was? What if those medieval ...

A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million ...

A shattered asteroid may have unleashed a long-lasting cosmic barrage that left scars across the inner solar system and ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study has proposed a connection between a specific collision in the main asteroid belt and ...

Neptune, a distant ice giant, experiences remarkably strong winds. These winds exceed 2,000 kilometers per hour, far ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed. When you purchase through ...

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

On August 12, 2026, lucky viewers in and around Greenland, Iceland and Spain—weather allowing—will be able to see one of ...

While life on Mars (and Venus) has long been an obsession for those wondering if we're alone, there are other places in our solar system that could support life in some form.

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...

A distant 'exomoon' the size of Jupiter is changing how we think about the cosmos.