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

Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

American astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson, and English physicist, science communicator, and ...

Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...

Before 3I/ATLAS, the only other confirmed interstellar tourists we've seen were the now-famous, cigar-shaped 'Oumuamua' in ...

It’s been hypothesized for decades that life on Earth may not have been as “homegrown” as one might think and now, we’re ...

New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through a solid iron lattice. This unusual behavior makes the core soft, matching ...

Scientists have long believed that the Moon was formed by a massive object crashing into the Earth. But what was that thing ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is a chemical goldmine, holding life's building blocks four times richer than local comets.

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is nearing Earth. Hubble and Juice captured new images, revealing an alien object with a strange ...