"Over time, the rays will darken to the shade of the surrounding regolith as the material is exposed to space weathering," ...

Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed everything—reshaping Earth, forming the Moon, and scattering clues across ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...

European astronomers report the discovery of a second alien world in the TOI-1422 planetary system located some 500 light ...

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

Snapshots from six computer simulations illustrating the distinct tectonic regimes of terrestrial planets, including the newly discovered ...

A Rutgers researcher and collaborators have linked unusual geological anomalies to Earth’s molten origins and its unique habitability. For many years, researchers have struggled to understand two ...

This gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet.This process usually takes a few hundred million years, but what if we made it happen much quicker. And ...

For the first time in years, astronomers are seriously talking about adding a new member to the solar system’s planetary ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

New research shows that climate change is beginning to erode home prices in the most disaster-prone areas of the United ...