How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Can a global pandemic affect temperatures on the Moon? A 2024 study linked worldwide lockdowns with a drop in heat radiation reaching the Moon from Earth – but now scientists say that wasn't actually ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

An ambitious, multinational research project co-led by the University at Buffalo has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity ...

An asteroid strike could cool the planet's climate, harm crops, and disrupt food supply, but it may also increase plankton ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

TEMPLE, Texas — A 'planetary parade' is making its way across the sky this January, with four planets, six if you have a telescope, visible in a planetary alignment. According to NASA ...

Planetary alignments aren't rare, even when it comes to seeing six planets in the January night sky. Planets always appear in a line from our Earth-bound vantage, so the arrangement isn't anything ...