While Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System, on average it spends more time closer to Earth than Venus does.
Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars.
Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...
Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of Earth’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later formed the moon.
Researchers have documented 55 instances of "mini lightning" over two Martian years by eavesdropping on the whirling wind ...
Ecuador’s vanguard moral-legal compass for nature is perhaps why the Galápagos Islands, an archipelago 900km off the ...
Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age on Apple TV shifts focus from dinosaurs to Pleistocene-era animals, using advanced photogrammetry ...