"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." ...

Europa, Jupiter’s frozen moon, is one of the most promising places in the solar system to harbor life, with a vast hidden ...

Skyscraper-size asteroid previously predicted to hit us in 60 years will zoom past Earth on Thursday (Sept. 18) — and you can ...

In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

A study published in Nature found some regions on Earth experience peak spring at unexpected times. Researchers found ...

Lunar minerals generate the rust mineral hematite when bombarded with high-energy oxygen particles, experiments show.

The Moon is rusting — and it’s Earth’s fault. Scientists have found that oxygen particles blown from Earth to the Moon can ...

The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The ...

New research from NASA has found that the dwarf planet Ceres may be another place to look for evidence of primitive life in our solar system.

A decades-long scientific debate over the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea has been resolved. New ...

A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...

We may one day be able to forecast powerful solar storms capable of devastating Earth’s electronics more than half a day in advance, following a successful test of the approach using the Solar Orbiter ...