The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet ...
A new take on the origins of Earth’s water claims to reveal the composition of the Earth in the first few million years after ...
Venus is often called Earth's "sister planet" because of their similarities in size, mass, and composition. Both are rocky ...
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Before Earth became a blue planet teeming with life, it was a barren, rocky world, dry as dust and ...
Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation ...
The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College will open this fall for public viewing on Thursday evenings, 7:30-9:30 pm, weather permitting. You can follow activities on Instagram@keebleobservatory ...
Chrysalis, a 36-mile rotating space habitat, plans to take 2,400 people to Alpha Centauri in approximately 400 years.
Just two decades after astronomers discovered the first exoplanet, NASA has confirmed the existence of 6,000 alien worlds.
Lava tubes are familiar on Earth. They form when the surface of a lava flow hardens while molten rock continues to drain ...
According to Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, the comet 3I/ATLAS likely weighs over 33 billion tons. This startling estimate was derived from an analysis of the object's trajectory, where Loeb ...
Two recent studies used seismic data from NASA's retired InSight mission to shed light on what lies beneath Mars’ surface and what that means for the planet’s history ...
A new study warns of an undiscovered population of asteroids that could strike Earth with little to no warning.