Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, an enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects ...

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

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called "red giant" phase are even more destructive to their orbiting planets than ...

Parker Solar Probe Makes History by Touching the Sun 8 million miles above the Sun's surface on December 24, 2024, traveling ...

"What inspired us most was the long-standing mystery of how the young sun's violent activity influenced the nascent Earth." A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety ...

Outer Wilds is a space-faring indie that nails its narrative and themes, delivering an essential experience for fans of ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia ...

Space mining is not yet a reality, but private companies and governments are increasingly turning their attention to it as a ...

In the upcoming issue of the journal Science, researchers determine the possible composition of Theia, the body that collied with Earth 4.5 billion years ago thus creating the Moon. The impactor’s ...

Astronomers might have found evidence of a structure located farbeyond Neptune, potentially giving us clues about the solar ...

NASA and the European Space Agency plan to bring samples back from Mars. Could they harbor a type of life that scientists ...

For lovers of astronomy Saturn’s “disappearing rings” on Sunday will be a rare and fascinating event but for believers in ...