After solar activity spent several decades on the decrease, the number of sunspots, flares and coronal mass ejections is once ...

Saturn's rings are unimaginably vast. They extend outwards from Saturn's surface for hundreds of thousands of kilometers; to ...

New study provides clearer insight into how the Moon formed and why its materials closely resemble those of Earth.

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

An instrument built by the University of Colorado Boulder will soon launch on a NASA space mission where it will aim to collect interstellar dust particles hurtling through space at an average of 16 ...

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

The math is brutal. With the global population projected to hit 10 billion by 2050, experts warn we will need to produce at ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third ISO ever detected. It was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) ...

A rocky, Earth-size planet located in our Milky Way galaxy may have an atmosphere around it, according to new research, ...

Entering a certain laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a giant slingshot-like impact experiment device stands out prominently. The metallic tracks gleam with a cold light, and various ...

Though no direct evidence of life has been found, models suggest Ceres had hot water shooting into its underground oceans ...