NASA scientists determined that the meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home may offer new clues about what our solar ...
This discovery marks a major milestone in the search for life on worlds beyond our solar system. A faint stream of helium ...
The newly found object, estimated to be roughly as massive as Jupiter, orbits a brown dwarf—a "failed star"—which in turn ...
Scientists are documenting a planetary system in the Milky Way galaxy that is so starkly dissimilar to our own solar system ...
That's far from what you'd call a good day, but it turns out the dinosaurs were particularly unlucky: A string of unfortunate ...
Two giant planets lighter than cotton candy are giving astronomers a rare new window into the origins of some of the galaxy's ...
Welcome to the Solar System construction zone. Today you’ll be using our cosmic sandbox to build a brand new planet. What ...
The international team reached the conclusion after analysing nickel isotopes preserved in a thin layer of clay left behind ...
This painting by Donald E. Davis depicts an asteroid slamming into tropical, shallow seas of the sulfur-rich Yucatan Peninsula in what is today southeast Mexico. Wikipedia Sixty-six million years ago, ...
Researchers identified the Chicxulub impactor as an exceptionally rare type of asteroid that wouldn't have triggered a mass ...
Rocky exoplanet atmosphere confirmed for the first time in a habitable zone: Harvard astronomers detected helium escaping ...
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was likely an exceptionally rare CO chondrite from a distant region of the solar system. Its unusual chemistry suggests that planet-cooling dust and debris, ...