Saturn’s rings are an arresting sight even through modest telescopes. The planet is made mostly of hydrogen and helium whereas the rings are billions of pieces of mostly bright-white water ice and ...

Astrophysicists have been grappling with the question of how water arrived on our young planet for decades. One of the ...

Mars, our neighboring red planet, possesses some of the most dazzling and extreme geological features within our solar system ...

As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...

Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

Asteroids are space rocks orbiting the sun that are considerably smaller than planets. Scientists believe they’re the ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

Scientists found that an asteroid impact carved two massive canyons on the moon in minutes. High-speed debris helped shape ...

Berkshire Hathaway Energy Renewables filed an application to suspend the Application for Certification (AFC) proceeding for ...

Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...