Harvard University researchers recently examined carbonaceous chondrite meteorites using precise measurements of three ...

Long before Earth had oceans, continents, or life, tiny grains of organic matter were drifting through the cold reaches of ...

From Earth and the Moon to the Voyagers, Milky Way, and cosmic web, the scale of space is almost impossible to grasp. The ...

The team operating a remote chemistry lab onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover won a Gizmodo Science Fair award for discovering ...

The Hubble Space Telescope's best images of the planets, moons, comets and other celestial bodies of our Solar System.

An international team led by the Department of Astronomy at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has determined the orbital ...

Reed’s idea was not just to locate another star and place Earth in a nice warm orbit around it. Earth is now in a very ...

The future of humanity in the solar system is explored through a speculative look at what colonization could mean for life ...

When the solar system began building its first solid objects, it had two main ingredients available. One was chondrules—tiny, ...

Imagery sent back by a satellite orbiting the Moon has revealed the largest, newly formed crater ever found in the solar ...

Iron meteorites show the first bodies of the early solar system were 83% to 92% dry rock, with water arriving millions of ...