But what if we tell you there are plenty of moons in our solar system that are as beautiful or even more marvellous as the ...

Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...

How old is Earth? Our planet's age is known from a variety of sources, from rocks on our own planet to ones from the moon.

How many moons does Jupiter have? Scientists have discovered dozens of them, but the answer may be more complicated than it ...

Scientists have not yet found direct evidence of a moon outside our solar system -- but they just found a hint of a hellish one.

By analyzing the movements of a mysterious cloud of sodium moving around the planet WASP-49 b, the team was able to construct ...

Recent breakthroughs in lunar sample analysis from both the Apollo 16 mission and the far side of the moon have unveiled ...

Europa is considered one of the solar system's most promising spots to search for life beyond Earth. Read more at ...

Complex carbon-based molecules crucial to life on Earth originated somewhere in space, but we didn't know where. Now, huge ...

New research suggests Earth’s Moon might have been 'stolen' from elsewhere in the Solar System through gravitational capture, challenging the widely accepted Giant Impact Theory.

A prime focus in this search is rocky planets orbiting low-mass stars called M-dwarfs, the most common type of stars in the ...

Over the last week, we’ve been entertained by a pre-Halloween visitor from the depths of our solar system. It’s Comet ...