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

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 ...

Water isn't just delivered to planets by comets and asteroids — it can also be forged as worlds form, a new study finds.

A new extinct flying reptile species has been discovered in fossilized dinosaur vomit. Known as "regurgitalite," the remains ...

The study suggests that planets closest to their stars, especially those that orbit their stars in just 12 days or less, are at a higher risk of being sent to their doom by their aging suns.