Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...

While the feds idled, an interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS was barnstorming the solar system, at a speed that reached 153 ...

A newly discovered cluster of objects called the “inner kernel” of the Kuiper belt could teach us about the early history of ...

This gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet.This process usually takes a ...

Make room, earthling. We’re moving the other planets in our Solar System into our planetary neck of the woods.

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, an enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects ...

New research shows that Theia, the planet that collided with Earth and formed the Moon, was a rocky world born closer to the ...

Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals ...

Astronomers say they spotted signs of a giant explosion releasing from a star beyond our solar system, one powerful enough to destroy a planet’s atmosphere.

About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia ...

The unusual comet—which is to pass Earth again in the coming weeks—is only the third known object to visit us from outside ...