An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

In May 2024, an epic solar storm rattled Earth so powerfully that its effects were felt even at the bottom of the ocean.

McLeod County is seeking bids for a project targeting drainage around the McLeod County Fairgrounds’ inner ring road. Plans call for the road to be replaced following the McLeod County Fair ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

No matter how many missions to Mars she takes part in, the sheer joy of unearthing discoveries about the red planet never gets old for Mariek Schmidt.

Using artificial intelligence, scientists have discovered a crater from a meteoroid that they say shook material as deep as ...

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.