Earth and Mars are mysteriously low in elements like copper and zinc, which are crucial for planetary chemistry and ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

The boundless potential of astronomical discovery contrasts sharply with the backwardness and reaction promoted by Trump and ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

Aisling O'Hare, who led the study, told Newsweek she's "excited" about what the science world can learn from the data.

The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This Sunday, Lucy was expected to fly past her second target ...

A molecule detected on a planet 124 light-years away is produced on Earth by decaying phytoplankton and other microbes. There is no other known source.

"This research suggests that hot interstellar gas bubbles like the one our solar system is embedded within ... as it can help detect the composition, temperature and movement of these distant ...

The chemical signature of rocks formed in subduction zones (where one plate has slipped beneath another) is distinctive in its low quantity of the element ... as the early Solar System's chaos ...

Scientists have discovered where Earth's water comes from, and say that it wasn't brought to the planet by asteroid impacts after all.

Located 130 light-years away, the HR 8799 system hosts four ... significant presence of heavy elements like carbon and oxygen in these planets' atmospheres. This composition suggests gradual ...