Today, only the largest planets in the solar system have rings, but a new study suggests Earth may have been a ringed planet ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

Technological advances such as the one discussed here are only furthering the potential for clean energy production.

The Leonid meteor shower peaks in North America overnight from Nov. 17 to 18, with "shooting stars" and fast-moving fireballs ...

When considering your future plans, how much weight should you give to the possibility of an asteroid (or comet) striking the ...

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When we gaze at nature's remarkable phenomena, we might feel a mix of awe, curiosity, and determination to understand what we are looking at. That is ...

As energy from the sun reaches Earth, some solar radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere, leading to chemical reactions like the formation of ozone and the breakup of gas molecules. A new approach for ...

Launched in July 2022, NASA's EMIT mission aboard the International Space Station has evolved from mapping minerals in ...

The nearby star Vega, featured in the 1997 movie Contact, appears to have a smooth disk devoid of giant planets for reasons ...

The goal of the Parker Solar Probe mission is to investigate the mysteries of the sun's corona, its outer atmosphere. What ...

The double-satellite Proba-3 is the most ambitious member yet of ESA's Proba family of experimental missions. Two spacecraft ...