Because the Moon is over a quarter the diameter of Earth, the Earth-Moon system is often cited as the pairing in our Solar ...
Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.
Earth: The Most Fascinating Planet in the Universe? Even though we live on this planet, there’s still so much we don’t know!
The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...
Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?
The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...
A super-Earth is a title given to an exoplanet based on its size. As Nasa explains: "Super-Earths – a class of planets unlike ...
They developed a 3D model that simulates how the solar system's orbital architecture may have evolved differently with the formation of a planet that is at least twice the size of Earth's mass—a ...