Two unusual cosmic events happened in late 2025, fascinating people across the world. A rare interstellar comet called ...
To our best of our understanding, the Moon formed from Earth following a colossal impact. A Mars-sized world we nicknamed ...
It’s doing a Sun run. Manhattan-sized comet 3I/ATLAS — which scientists suspect could have extraterrestrial origins — will reach its closest approach to the Sun on October 30. While ATLAS doesn’t ...
About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia ...
Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is slated to be the next Great Observatory for the world. Its main focus has been searching for biosignatures in the atmospheres of at least 25 Earth-like ...
Which planet is the furthest from the sun? Some may think it’s Pluto, but it’s actually Neptune. Learn more about this ice ...
When the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) weather satellite GOES-19 turns its gaze toward the sun, scientists don't expect to see our home planet. But there it was ...
"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.