A study led by researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide has revealed how the breakup of an ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

Uranus’s tiny moon Ariel may have had a subsurface ocean that made up around 55% of its total volume. By mapping craters, ...

The Origins Federation Conference gathered researchers across disciplines in the search for how life began on Earth—and maybe ...

As missions prepare to visit ocean worlds like Enceladus and Europa, new findings show scientists must first learn to ...

Scientists reveal how the DART mission asteroid impact blasted 35 million pounds of debris and changed Dimorphos’ orbit. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent ...

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human ...

NASA’s TESS has uncovered three Earth-sized planets orbiting twin suns, defying long-held beliefs that binary systems are too ...

Astronomers using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi Island have identified a rare, ancient ...

This new James Webb Space Telescope image features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537–the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), JWST has revealed never-before-seen details in ...

The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moons, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.

The discovery of the Kuiper Belt fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the solar system's architecture and population, revealing a far larger and more complex system than previously imagined.