Gleise 710, an orange dwarf star about 63 light years away, is on course to pass through the outer reaches of our solar ...

The object that smashed into Earth and kick-started the extinction that wiped out almost all dinosaurs 66 million years ago was an asteroid that originally formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter, ...

Let’s pilot Spaceship Earth out of our Solar System. What would it take to free our planet from the Sun’s gravity?

The Erigone family of asteroids are water-rich space rocks that provide a window into the solar system's past. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and probing mysteries of the Universe.

NASA's Psyche orbiter looked back and snapped a photo of Earth with the moon on its way to the asteroid Psyche in 2029. - NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU illustration As a NASA spacecraft whizzed away from ...

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

There's something big missing from our solar system — and that may be a good thing. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Planetary ...

Sixty-six million years ago Earth had a very bad day. A mountain-sized impactor fell out of the sky at kilometers-per-second speed, slamming into the shallow sea off what is now Mexico’s portion of ...