The trans-Neptunian object Altjira, 44 times farther from the Sun than Earth is, could be the second known trinary, ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

Imagine setting out for a springtime stroll. Not here on Earth but on some distant planet — call it Novathis-458b — orbiting ...

Originally, the hypothesis was that Theia gave the Earth a glancing blow, and the proto-Earth and Theia lost pieces ending up as one or two moons that eventually formed the Moon. It was thought that a ...

Social media users reckon Katy Perry might have just ended the Flat Earth debate after seeing footage of her on the Blue ...

Experts spotted a new, young planet with a strange behavior orbiting a dwarf star. It is 10 times bigger than the Earth and ...

These sapropel layers are packaged into groups of 4–5 (Figure 4), reflecting the influence of slight changes in the shape of the Earth's orbit around the sun (eccentricity) on modulating the ...

Half a century has passed since India successfully launched Aryabhata, its first satellite, on April 19, 1975. This success ...

The night sky used to be a place of wonder—an endless expanse where dreams of exploration and discovery soared. Today, that ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured an unprecedentedly sharp image of planetary nebula NGC 1514, revealing ...

SpaceX's 32nd resupply mission for NASA includes ISS National Lab-sponsored biomedical research, physical sciences projects, technology demon ...

A new study shows how the Sun and Earth's atmosphere destroy life-bearing meteoroids before they reach the planet.