You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

Multiple bullets containing a tiny spectrometer could be shot into the lunar soil by an astronaut or rover, allowing analysis ...

A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

Research suggests Earth might have once boasted a spectacular ring similar to Saturn's, formed from an asteroid breakup ...

Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing asteroid, a new study suggests. The debris ring, which likely lasted tens of millions of ...

Earth may briefly have had a ring system similar to Saturn ’s over 450 million years ago during a period of unusually intense ...

Fluffier' soil distinct from previous near side samples, may offer 'highly significant' insights into lunar origin, evolution ...

The ring might have acted like a giant sunshade, causing a cooling effect that might have unleashed an ice age.

Minuscule meteoroids slamming into the lunar surface could be kicking up most of the atoms that make up the lunar exosphere.

The Curiosity rover captured this image on Sept. 9, 2024, during its 4,295th Martian day (called a "sol") on Mars. It's been ...

However, all 21 of the craters are ... from a such a formation. The ancient asteroid must have come closer to the Earth than a distance known as the Roche limit, which is the minimum distance at which ...