Astronomers have long treated most interstellar visitors as scientific curiosities rather than deliberate travellers. So when ...

Astronomers were slow at spotting a small giraffe-sized asteroid that zoomed past our planet on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, ...

In late October, Hurricane Melissa (that should have been called “Godzilla”) battered western Jamaica with 185-mile-an-hour winds. It tossed the roofs of ...

The idea of artificially lowering the planet’s temperature is gaining supporters and hitting political opposition.

The outer planets of the Solar System are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn’s moon Enceladus, are ...

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

An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.

A Rutgers researcher and collaborators have linked unusual geological anomalies to Earth’s molten origins and its unique habitability. For many years, researchers have struggled to understand two ...

Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.

If you know any bit of information about how the moon was created, new research indicates that everyone has believed wrong.

A new study uncovers hidden chemical clues showing that fire played a bigger role in the Early Triassic than scientists once ...

​The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas has been getting a lot of attention online, especially as it moves closer to the inner Solar System before Christmas. Many people have shared worries, questions, and ...