About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

A moon rock collected over fifty years ago by Apollo 17 astronauts could well overturn our understanding of the Moon's ...

"The complexity of the exo-Neptunian landscape provides offers a unique window onto the processes involved in the formation ...

What if our understanding of Uranus and Neptune's compositions have been wrong, specifically regarding their classifications ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a detailed image of NGC 6000, a barred spiral galaxy. It displays a yellow core of old ...

Young asteroids—which formed much later than those that were created during the formation of our solar system—are typically ...

The asteroid belt orbiting between Mars and Jupiter would hurl fragments if it got destabilized, turning it into dust upon mutual collisions.

A study published in the journal Nature Astronomy challenges traditional explanations about the origin of the innermost planet in the Solar System and proposes a more likely scenario. The collision ...

New research forces scientists to reconsider the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken basin, the landing spot for NASA’s Artemis project.

Webb Telescope is investigating the formation of moons around a massive planet. Astronomers are using the data to study the ...

A team of astronomers has attempted to track the path of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS back into the past, tracing its path ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like ...