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

The composition of crystals in volcanic rocks changes with their ages in ways that correlate with the Solar System’s movements around the Milky Way, scientists have reported. If the relationship is a ...

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

The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found.

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

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

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

Astronomers have identified a tiny quasi-moon, 2025 PN7, orbiting near Earth for about 60 years. This 62-foot-wide near-Earth ...

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

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

The comet is known as 3I-Atlas and is currently 238 million miles from Earth. According to NASA, the comet is expected to ...