Water is essential in order for life to exist, but scientists are still unsure about how it originated on Earth. […] ...

Welcome to SolarBalls! This channel features entertaining space animations that educate viewers about the solar system and the universe.

To understand how chaotic the early solar system was, we need only gaze at the moon. Its cratered surface bears the scars of ...

At the time, the Earth would have been far closer to the moon than it is today, making it perhaps twice as large in the lunar ...

New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.

Billions of years ago, in the frozen edges of the solar system, a violent impact shaped one of space’s oddest pairs. Instead ...

Did you know that the sun is up for more hours this month than in August? August is summertime, and May is still spring, so it may not seem quite right.

In 2005, thanks to Michael Brown’s scientific antics, Pluto was removed from the list of planets in the solar system. In 1968, the Apollo 8 mission flew around the moon. In 2001, Chris Hadfield became ...

A recent paper published in Nature and Nature Astronomy finding life's building blocks on a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class of planets.

The solar gravitation lens (SGL) has much potential as a telescope. This point in space, located about 650 AU away from the ...

With broad support, geothermal energy — a renewable energy that taps the earth’s inner heat — is on the cusp of a boom in ...