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

When a Mars-sized meteorite slammed into Earth billions of years ago, the impact completely reset any and all chemical ...

The interstellar visitor posed no threat to our planet, but experts thought it could fight dangerous asteroids looking to ...

Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, the young solar system was a swirling cloud of gas and dust that formed the first asteroids ...

Could scientists find life in the clouds of exoplanet atmospheres? This is what a manuscripton the arXiv preprint server ...

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

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

The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moons, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.

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

University of California, Irvine. An international team of researchers has identified a strong candidate for a nearby, potentially rocky exoplanet orbiting within its star’s temperate zone. The world, ...

Scientists have uncovered one of the few potentially habitable worlds close enough and positioned just right for the next ...

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