The meteorite weighs about 54 lbs. and is approximately 15 inches across at its widest section, per the release. The house also stated that the “incredibly rare discovery” was ejected from the surface ...

The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly ...

Hycean worlds are also called ocean worlds. They're planets covered in oceans that also have thick hydrogen atmospheres. There are no confirmed hycean worlds but many candidates. Even though they ...

When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: ...

A new material called Alloy 30 shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled and it could help with telescope ...

"Returning the scientifically selected samples that await us on Mars, as part of a balanced portfolio, will help to ensure ...

Imagine building super-smart robots with cameras, tools, and even drills that can travel millions of miles through space to ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

This week, astronomers spotted the third known interstellar visitor to our Solar System. First detected by the Asteroid ...

Our terrestrial planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars—formed as smaller rocky objects accumulated, or accreted, into larger planetesimals and eventually protoplanets, when late impacts made ...

How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between ...