New research suggests that Saturn’s rings may be older than they look—possibly as old as the planet. Instead of being...
The first dark comet—a celestial object that looks like an asteroid but moves through space like a comet—was reported less...
We have only one example of biology forming in the universe—life on Earth. But what if life can form in...
The South Pole-Aitken basin is the moon’s oldest and largest visible crater—a massive geological wound 4 billion years old that...
In the next decade, researchers will start probing the atmosphere of planets as small as Earth and Venus orbiting nearby...
A team of astronomers has found that Venus has never been habitable, despite decades of speculation that our closest planetary...
Five telescopes of the H.E.S.S.-collaboration in Namibia are used to study cosmic radiation, especially gamma radiation. With data from 10...
When NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, it captured grainy photographs of large ice-covered moons. Now nearly 40...
Identifying asteroids on a potential collision course with Earth could be made easier thanks to an advancement in how to...
Planet Earth is parting company with an asteroid that’s been tagging along as a “mini moon” for the past two...
A NASA study using a series of supercomputer simulations reveals a potential new solution to a longstanding Martian mystery: How...
Billions of years ago, a giant asteroid struck the moon with so much energy that it melted rock until it...
