Before becoming the only planet in our solar system teeming with life, Earth was a desolate, stony globe — dry as dust and ...

A new update to an influential economic theory called "Doughnut Economics" shows a global economy on a collision course with ...

Mercury is tiny, barely bigger than the Moon. Its metallic core makes up 70% of the planet’s mass, vastly exceeding Earth’s ...

About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

From how space rocks wobble to where to hit them, scientists are learning the fine art of asteroid deflection — and it could ...

Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a ...

The early years of our solar system were a period of unimaginable chaos and violence, a gravitational free-for-all where colliding planetary embryos competed for survival. In this tumultuous ...

Castle Hot Springs dazzles with turquoise pools, desert palms, starry skies, and a history as rich as its mineral waters ...

A study published in the journal Nature Astronomy challenges traditional explanations about the origin of the innermost planet in the Solar System and proposes a more likely scenario. The collision ...

A paper from several NASA scientists and other researchers explores whether an asteroid with a 4% chance of hitting the moon ...

NASA’s asteroid impact changed Dimorphos’s orbit, but another strange shift followed. Scientists are still searching for ...

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, and raised hopes that a space rock could be deflected from a collision ...