One of the oldest unsolved riddles in planetary science concerns the origin of the moon. Over a century ago, George Darwin ...
For decades, some scientists argued that our solar system showed signs of ancient catastrophe. A missing planet between Mars ...
This means that the lunar regolith could still hold a very long-term record of Earth's atmospheric history, which in turn ...
A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...
On Dec. 13, 2012, a Chinese spacecraft flew by the asteroid Toutatis. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ...
One of the last meteor showers of the year, the Geminids, is set to dazzle stargazers overnight on Saturday. Follow Newsweek live.
New images taken with the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii confirm that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has gotten brighter ...
The Geminids peak when the moon is 30 percent full, according to the International Meteor Organization. To get a hint at when ...
In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought materials from the surface of the asteroid Bennu (pictured) safely back to Earth. The returned samples were then curated carefully, to prevent the ...
The peak shower will appear to the east, coming out of the Gemini constellation, between 8 and 9 p.m. Saturday, and will last ...
The American Meteor Society (AMS) logged nearly 200 eyewitness accounts of the fireball, which flared into view around 6:43 p ...
The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...