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 ...
One fateful day about 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized body called Theia collided with proto-Earth, turning both into a ...
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 have discovered our solar system occupies a rare "safety zone" in the Milky Way, perfectly positioned between the ...
NASA released new images of 3I/ATLAS, the third comet ever to be discovered in Earth's cosmic neighborhood originating from ...
A clear look at the discovery of 40,000 near-Earth asteroids, how scientists track them, and the missions working to keep our ...
The number 40,000 might not sound particularly dramatic, but it represents humanity's growing catalog of near-Earth asteroids ...
"If we find technological satellites of Jupiter that we did not send, it would imply that Jupiter is of interest to an ...
Where did the Moon really come from? A groundbreaking new study has traced lunar origins to an inner-solar-system planet — a ...
This collision was responsible for more than just creating the moon — it also affected the shape, mass and composition of the Earth. However, new research from the journal Scien ...