Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, the young solar system was a swirling cloud of gas and dust that formed the first asteroids ...

CI chondrites are the most water- and volatile-rich of meteorites, with compositions similar to space rocks like Ryugu and Bennu. They are very porous and 'wet', with up to 20 percent of their weight ...

Comet Lemmon, a rare astronomical event that won’t happen again for 1,000 years, is set to light up our skies later this week ...

Geologists in Massachusetts made a groundbreaking discovery that could significantly alter what we know about the Earth's ...

Something slammed into United Flight 1093 on 16 October while cruising high above Utah. Nobody knows what it was.

In 2024, Chang'e 6 made history by bringing 1,935.3 grams of lunar far-side samples back to Earth. These samples were ...

The Orionids are one of two major meteor showers caused by remnants from Halley’s comet, which passes near Earth every 75 ...

Because magnets are hard, they were heated to 800° C to demagnetize and soften them prior to grinding them to dust. The ...

Keep an eye on the night sky in October—you might catch a falling star! The Orionid meteor shower reaches its peak on the ...

A pair of once-in-a-lifetime comets are rocketing through our skies right now, and it's a rare treat because they won't be ...

Skywatchers have a treat coming early this week, starting with a meteor shower late Monday night, and a couple of comets that ...