When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth.

The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are ...

Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though ...

A planet's habitability is determined by a confluence of many factors. So far, our explorations of potentially habitable ...

Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...

The story of how the Moon came to be has always carried a touch of mystery. Picture the young Solar System as a restless place where new worlds grew from swirling gas, dust, and rock. In that chaotic ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, Earth had a violent neighbor. A young, still-forming planet named Theia slammed into our world with enough force to melt vast portions of its mantle and scatter a huge ...

Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and ...

NASA released new images of 3I/ATLAS, the third comet ever to be discovered in Earth's cosmic neighborhood originating from ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

A million-to-one find near an old Australian Gold Rush prospecting area turned out to be something far rarer than gold – a ...