When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth.

Normally," rings around a planet are created from the remnants of meteors, moons or left over planet pieces. But this is not ...

A planet's habitability is determined by a confluence of many factors. So far, our explorations of potentially habitable ...

How do planetary systems form and evolve? This is what a new and groundbreaking laboratory at the Southwest Research ...

Conventionally, the moon is thought to have formed during one big impact, but a three-impact model might make more sense ...

In one study, a team led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of Tohoku University in Japan found six types of sugars, including ribose, ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

The Pandora Space Telescope will study 20 promising worlds that could host life ...

Across the galaxy, astronomers now see that planetary systems fall into four broad classes, and our own solar system, part of the rare Ordered group, is only one of them. At the same time, discoveries ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

Apollo samples provide evidence: Researchers analyzed Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions and, for the first time, ...