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

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

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 ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...

Astronomers have spotted thousands of young stars huddled around the center of an ancient galaxy, all of which formed nearly ...

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

Mysterious Neptune Dark Spot Detected from Earth for the First Time Aug. 24 ... Feb. 8, 2023 — Scientists have discovered a new ring system around a dwarf planet on the edge of the Solar ...

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.