For years, planetary scientists have argued that some of the material that built Earth must have drifted in from beyond ...

Japan's space agency, JAXA, has been knocking it out of the park with small-body exploration missions for decades. They had ...

Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner solar system, they consider it likely that 6–40% of this material must have ...

Earth likely formed from inner Solar System material alone, raising fresh questions about the origin of water on our planet.

A new NASA spacecraft has started tracking the particle streams that can make a massive solar flare dangerous while mapping ...

The universe is at it again; scientists have been baffled by a discovery that turns all the knowledge they have on planetary ...

A new analysis of meteorite isotopes challenges long-held ideas about Earth’s origins, suggesting our planet may have formed ...

Scientists outline how a once-in-a-century solar storm could disrupt the technology modern society depends on.

Scientists have identified 45 Earth-like planets beyond our solar system that may support life. Using advanced space data, ...

Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active place in the solar system. Let me tell you just how volcanic it is.

Planetary scientists led by Paolo Sossi have determined that Earth assembled almost entirely from material originating in the ...

Somewhere beyond Neptune, the Kuiper Belt is bent. Not by much, and not in a way any known planet can account for. A study ...