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

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 ...

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 ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made a remarkable discovery, detecting unusual gas jets emanating from Centaur ...

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

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

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

Now, a researcher realized that the Solar System's biggest moon's axis has ... "I want to understand the origin and evolution of Ganymede and other Jupiter moons. The giant impact must have ...

Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system, bigger even than the planet ... "I want to understand the origin and evolution of Ganymede and other Jupiter moons. The giant impact must have ...