The Moon’s surface is covered by impact craters, ranging from microscopic pits to massive basins over 1,000 kilometres across ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The discovery not only ...

"We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject the surrounding highly shocked rock material into ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

Astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made an unusual discovery, finding a planet which is in the process of disintegrating. And as it decays, it is leaving behind a ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...

The leftover debris from history's most famous comet will once again streak across the skies over New York. The upcoming ...

Robyn MacRae wanted to capture an image of C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – or the Great Comet of 2025, as it is rather more poetically ...

Exactly 35 years ago this week, the Hubble Space Telescope was released from the Space Shuttle Discovery cargo hatch. Four ...

Once you remember that the sun also orbits the solar system's common center of mass, it all makes sense. Our sun is wobbling, ...

A planet 140 light-years from Earth that is rapidly falling apart has been spotted by astronomers after they detected an ...