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

Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.

Earth and the planetary object that gave rise to the Moon were likely born in the same region of the solar system.

The pristine interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is theorised to be covered in ice cryovolcanoes, challenging all models of comet ...

Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun.

A flying piece of cosmic rock or an alien threat? Comet 3I/ATLAS is hurtling through our solar system and captivating scientists and internet users alike, even prompting Kim Kardashian to ask NASA for ...

Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...

NASA has found sugars essential for life on Earth in samples of the 4.6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid. Scientists ...

After cataloging thousands of worlds beyond our solar system, astronomers are now closing in on a far rarer prize: a moon ...

Harvard scientist Avi Loeb analyses NASA's 3I/ATLAS photos, theorising the comet's forward-facing glow could be alien technology designed to actively clear meteors from its flight path.

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has created a new space science laboratory to enhance our understanding of the origins of ...