“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

A massive landslide would have dammed the Colorado River, forming a deep lake that has since dried up. A meteorite impact ...

The Grand Canyon, one of the most iconic geological formations on Earth, may hold deeper secrets about our planet’s history ...

Perseids meteor shower lighting up the UK skies. Discover the science behind the spectacle, peak dates, and top viewing tips ...

Dubbed the "best meteor shower of the year" by NASA, the Perseids are about to appear over Australia tonight - here's how to ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

“We’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or ‘planetesimals’, must form further back in time at earlier ...

The best meteor shower of the year is already happening in Pennsylvania. While we haven't hit peak viewing yet, the Perseids ...

Christian Varady was watching the sky outside his Cantonment home when he saw a color-changing fireball fall into the ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just more than $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects Wednesday in New York. But a rare young dinosaur ...

The Perseid meteor shower, active from July 17 to August 23, peaks on August 12-13, potentially offering 50-75 meteors per ...

The Perseid meteor shower is one of the brightest and fastest meteor showers of the year, and is set to peak within a month ...