While some scientists are using the James Webb Space Telescope, the leading observatory in the sky run by NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts, to study the planets' chemical compositions, ...

Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today ...

The longest single-target search for radio signals from TRAPPIST-1 — a star system with seven planets just 41 light-years ...

Starman Brian Cox talks about travel to Mars, science and failed experiments and how his latest series is informed by ...

A steam-shrouded planet unlike any we’ve seen before has been detected nearly 100 light years away. The planet, known as GJ ...

Penn State and SETI instittue researchers develop new method using the Allen Telescope Array to search for interplanetary ...

A large asteroid, roughly the size of a stadium, is set to pass Earth on . Named 2024 RV50, this asteroid measures about 710 ...

Until now, only 6% of meteorites had a known source, but now we can trace the origin of more than 70% of these rocks.

Planetesimals are small rocky bodies that served as the main building blocks of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth. They were formed around 4.6 billion years ago in the disk of dust and ...

This research shows that we are getting closer to technology and methods that could detect radio signals similar to the ones ...

An explosion of particles arrived at Earth on Thursday, and could lead to visible northern lights in much of the country ...

One of the key components for the evolution of life as we know it is the presence of “volatiles”: elements and compounds that ...