When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth.

Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and ...

The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are ...

Westfield High School senior Kaitlynn Goulette and freshman Krystyna Goulette have developed a walkable, scale model of the ...

Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a planet too close to ...

Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...

Make room, earthling. We’re moving the other planets in our Solar System into our planetary neck of the woods.

A newly discovered cluster of objects called the “inner kernel” of the Kuiper belt could teach us about the early history of ...

New research shows that Theia, the planet that collided with Earth and formed the Moon, was a rocky world born closer to the ...

Space has a knack for bending our sense of scale. The Moon feels close enough to touch—after all, we see its craters with ...