For about 4.5 billion years, our planet has circled the sun on a stable, rhythmic path. Each of Earth's orbits takes ...

New research challenges what we know of our planet’s ancient past, suggesting that a ring formed around the Earth around 466 ...

Minuscule meteoroids slamming into the lunar surface could be kicking up most of the atoms that make up the lunar exosphere.

A new study from Monash University scientists suggests that Earth may have had a ring system that formed around 466 million ...

Until scientists learn more then, here are seven of the most fascinating discoveries they’ve made about Saturn so far. The ...

First identified by NASA’s Near-Earth Object Observations Programme, 2024 ON has been closely monitored due to its impressive ...

Our solar system might still bear the scars from an extremely close shave with an alien star. Such an encounter – the closest pass we know of – would have shaken up objects on the outskirts and might ...

While more research is needed to confirm this theory, the study offers a fascinating glimpse into the possible history of our solar system and how forces from outside could have shaped it.

The findings, published in Scientific Reports, highlight how such massive impacts have shaped celestial bodies, offering new insights into Ganymede’s geological history and potential habitability.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The history of our solar system is a turbulent one. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid, which decimated the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, was just ...

On April 23, NASA launched a solar sail protype to orbit around our planet — a piece of technology ... formally called the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, and stated that the spacecraft ...

Ganymede is also the solar system’s largest moon—bigger even than the 3,030-mile wide planet Mercury. But that doesn’t mean it’s impervious to a pounding. Like our moon, Ganymede is ...