Eugene Shoemaker, the founder of astrogeology, dedicated his life to understanding planetary formation through impacts. His ...

But much is unknown about the availability of water ice on the moon, or even what data is missing that could help fine-tune ...

The early growth of the gas giant carved rings that formed primitive meteorites and shaped the architecture of the inner solar system. New research from Rice University reveals that Jupiter played a ...

As missions prepare to visit ocean worlds like Enceladus and Europa, new findings show scientists must first learn to ...

Sci-fi movies and TV shows love to place a planet inside a binary system. In reality, a planet shouldn’t be able go around ...

The Origins Federation Conference gathered researchers across disciplines in the search for how life began on Earth—and maybe ...

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of ...

The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moons, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.

A team of researchers at The University of New Mexico has uncovered how a peculiar, prehistoric plant might unlock new ways ...

The study revealed that TOI-2267 has two closely bound stars orbiting each other, and the third planet transits the companion ...