A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

L ike many of us, Earth bears old pockmarks. Our planet’s crust has a band of ancient craters that formed around 465 million ...

The conclusions come from patterns tracked by scientists that point to several meteorite impacts through geological records.

New research explores if the moon was captured by Earth or formed by a collision. Scientists weigh theories, analyzing lunar ...

Once here, the researchers have suggested that the asteroid likely met a brutal end, ripped to shreds and scattered around ... Earth was already in the throes of a serious cold snap. But the ring ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured incredibly sharp images of the Horsehead Nebula, one of the most iconic ...

From nebulas and black holes to baby star nurseries and ancient collisions, the universe has never looked more beautiful ...

About the same diameter as Earth’s moon, the innermost of Jupiter’s four giant moons is covered in volcanoes, some emitting sulfurous plumes hundreds of miles into space. It’s been imaged by ...

Earlier in September, SpaceX launched its 7,000th Starlink satellite to orbit as part of its growing internet constellation. Starlink is currently operational in 102 countries, with SpaceX planning ...

A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega ...

But today, we can consider how a near-miss asteroid and a possible ring around Earth affected life in the distant past because we know that space debris had a deep impact on life at another time.