Mars aurora science overturned: a Nature Communications study using archived MAVEN orbiter data confirms that the Dungey ...

Exomoon discovery: astronomers report the strongest evidence yet for a natural satellite outside our solar system — a Jupiter ...

The Hoba meteorite in Namibia is the largest known natural piece of iron on Earth, weighing about 60 metric tons today. By ...

Proposed orbital data centers and space mirrors could create bright, concentrated satellite bands that cross the sky at dawn and dusk, making Earth appear ringed. Astronomers warn that these ...

A giant planet had been hiding inside one of astronomy’s most closely studied planetary systems, concealed by a bright disk of cosmic dust. Webb revealed Beta Pictoris d through atmospheric traces of ...

A rocky exoplanet 48 light-years from Earth has offered the 'strongest evidence yet' that other planets besides Earth could ...

That's far from what you'd call a good day, but it turns out the dinosaurs were particularly unlucky: A string of unfortunate ...

A shattered asteroid may have unleashed a long-lasting cosmic barrage that left scars across the inner solar system and ...

A violent collision in the main asteroid belt may have sent debris raining across the inner solar system about 800 million ...

Researchers probe the geochemistry of the moon, Mars, asteroids, and water worlds to understand our home and plan for future ...

Eulalia asteroid bombardment: a new study identifies the Eulalia asteroid family as the source of a third wave of impacts ...

Are we alone in the universe? For scientists working on NASA's proposed Habitable Worlds Observatory, that question is no ...