Around 7:15 am on June 30 in 1908, during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II, an object from space entered Earth's atmosphere over ...

As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, the history of the solar system tells its own story of ...

A gas giant planet called WD 1856b, orbiting the burned-out core of a dead, sun-like star. “It was unlike any other exoplanet ...

International Asteroid Day is nigh. Held every June 30, the occasion marks what is thought to be the biggest asteroid impact ...

With about 6,300 exoplanets discovered so far and more than 10,000 candidates awaiting confirmation, it’s easy to forget the ones that started it all: the very first exoplanets discovered and ...

The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with unruly orbits are coming into view, revealing hints of a surprising past – and the origin of Saturn's ...

3I/ATLAS was described as the third confirmed interstellar object after ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov, but the script says it did not behave like either of them. It passed within about 28 million ...

The week ahead will see a meeting of two bright planets as Venus and Jupiter make for a dazzling display in the evening sky to the west after sunset. Over previous months and most notably during May, ...

The scale of Jupiter is on a different dimension from the Earth and Mars we have visited so far. Its mass is about 318 times that of Earth. Even if you were to literally scrape together the mass of ...

A star passed near Earth and the Sun and jostled objects in the Oort Cloud 2.5 million years ago, sending them on a journey towards us. They are all long-period comets, meaning most of them would ...

Hold a carbonaceous chondrite and you’re holding a piece of the solar system’s infancy — a fragment of rock that predates Earth, assembled from dust when the planets were still taking shape.