When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth.

Scientists have long believed that the Moon was formed by a massive object crashing into the Earth. But what was that thing ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed predicted by standard cosmology. Using highly sensitive data from multiple ...

Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though ...

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

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Apollo samples provide evidence: Researchers analyzed Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions and, for the first time, ...

According to researchers, the composition of a planet or celestial body holds the entire story of its formation and origin.

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array detected significant amounts of methanol and hydrogen cyanide in ...

Astronomers might have found evidence of a structure located farbeyond Neptune, potentially giving us clues about the solar system’s primordial past. This discovery involves a dense concentration of ...

Meteorites are like a time machine and spacecraft all in one. Discover how our scientists use rare specimens in the meteorite ...