Inspired by the half-human, half-horse creatures that are part of Ancient Greek mythology, the field of astronomy has its own ...

There's a class of objects journeying around our solar system dubbed "centaurs." They don't come near Earth, but NASA just ...

Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope are giving scientists a fuller understanding about the composition and ...

The moon was probably formed from the earth by solar tidal disruption, this method being abnormal in the system, and the later evolution of the earth and moon has been dominated by bodily tidal ...

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

The first paper on the samples collected from China's Chang'e 6 lunar probe reveals that the specimens differ in some ways ...

Chinese scientists have made a groundbreaking analysis of the first lunar farside samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission, ...

Asteroids may not be the sexiest objects in the solar system. But in many ways ... organic molecules were formed in the early chemical evolution of our planet or whether they were brought from ...

With legislative momentum around clean power generation and net-zero emissions policies rapidly building, the U.S. is seeing ...

In this web focus, we present research papers, overview articles and opinion pieces that discuss how large impacts influenced the evolution of the early Solar System. Melt rocks returned from the ...

NASA's Webb Space Telescope has identified new clues about the surface of Pluto's largest moon. It detected for the first ...