Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...

We all know what a solar eclipse looks like from Earth — but what about from the rings of Saturn, the red skies of Mars, or beneath Jupiter’s swirling clouds? In this video, we travel across the solar ...

The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA's tally of exoplanets does not include more than 8,000 additional candidate planets ...

Normally," rings around a planet are created from the remnants of meteors, moons or left over planet pieces. But this is not ...

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Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention ...

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Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial rocks reveals. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover recently came across an odd ...

December means the winter solstice is coming, it arrives on Dec. 21, and we are in for a couple of very cold and snowy months in Wyoming. Even though it’s ...

"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system. Earth and Theia are likely to have been neighbors." ...

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 ...