The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

crash into a planet's atmosphere. On Earth, the result is the colorful northern and southern lights, visible in green and blue ribbons across the night sky. However, Jupiter's auroras are far more ...

Early Earth may not have had the right ingredients for life — until a nearby Mars-size planet crashed into it, two new ...

A mission to Jupiter launched over a decade ago is about to complete its work with a fiery plunge into the planet’s depths sometime this month. NASA’s Juno orbiter spacecraft reached Jupiter in 2016, ...

"We consider this phenomenon as a promising candidate to explain the fact that the solar activity is much more benign than that of other sun-like stars." A new study suggests that the planets in our ...

A Harvard apace boffin has defied the consensus of his peers to insist a giant unidentified mass hurtling through space ...

To avoid this scenario, Makadia's team plotted the best spots on an asteroid's surface to avoid the keyhole. Their technique ...