Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) was imaged in October as it crossed the galactic plane of the Milky Way.

Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbor valuable metals, ...

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

Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though ...

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

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

According to researchers, the composition of a planet or celestial body holds the entire story of its formation and origin.

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New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for the first time, giving scientists clues to the origin of life on Earth.