Hidden deep in ancient rocks, scientists have found the surviving traces of Earth’s first form—unchanged for 4.5 billion ...

Many scientists call Jupiter the architect of the solar system because its immense gravity influenced the orbits of other ...

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

Ancient rocks from Greenland, Canada and Hawaii preserve a rare chemical fingerprint that may come from the Earth before the ...

Astronomers have discovered GJ 251 c, a rocky super-Earth just 20 light-years away, one of the most promising nearby worlds ...

Earth” planet could allow us to finally see alien life, researchers say. The world – named GJ 251 c and lying less than 20 ...

Astronomers have spotted a quasi-moon near Earth — and the small space rock has likely been hanging out near our planet ...

Astronomers using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi Island have identified a rare, ancient ...

Billions of years ago, the solar system began as a swirling cloud of gas and dust. Over time, this material clumped together, ...

Meet 2025 PN7, Earth’s newest quasi-moon An illustration of the inner solar system, showing the orbits of the planets and the ...

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed ...

The Earth is reflecting less light than it used to, especially the Northern Hemisphere. While climate change is to blame, the ...