While life on Mars (and Venus) has long been an obsession for those wondering if we're alone, there are other places in our ...

On a clear night, it dominates the sky, bright enough to cast shadows and large enough for dark patches and surface features ...

Earth and the Moon both record evidence of a 'lost' period of bombardment. (NASA) Tiny crystal grains trapped inside a ...

The ingredients that help make a planet livable did not necessarily come from where many scientists once thought. A new ...

The study, published in Science Advances, focuses on two elements that are essential for life as we know it: nitrogen and ...

Hundreds of sextillions of dust grains may have escaped Earth and reached Europa, raising intriguing questions about the ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida Tech graduate, she leaves with not only a dual degree in planetary science ...

Earth and the Moon share a violent origin story. The Moon is thought to have formed after a large planetary body struck the ...

Unlike rocky planets such as Mars and Earth, angrites do not have a lot of silicon dioxide. Because of this, astronomers have ...

Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new exoplanets.

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...