Space has a knack for bending our sense of scale. The Moon feels close enough to touch—after all, we see its craters with ...

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

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

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

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system. It’s an unprecedented ...

Water isn't just delivered to planets by comets and asteroids — it can also be forged as worlds form, a new study finds.

The sun isn't always the gentle, life-giving star we see during peaceful sunrises and sunsets. Sometimes it awakens with ...

Westfield High School senior Kaitlynn Goulette and freshman Krystyna Goulette have developed a walkable, scale model of the ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...