L ike many of us, Earth bears old pockmarks. Our planet’s crust has a band of ancient craters that formed around 465 million ...

The conclusions come from patterns tracked by scientists that point to several meteorite impacts through geological records.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...

Once here, the researchers have suggested that the asteroid likely met a brutal end, ripped to shreds and scattered around ... Earth was already in the throes of a serious cold snap. But the ring ...

Astronomers have spotted thousands of young stars huddled around the center of an ancient galaxy, all of which formed nearly ...

The giant planet J1407b has been a weird space mystery since its discovery in 2010. But a new study revealed something about the planet that may help explain at least part of its weirdness: a ...

About the same diameter as Earth’s moon, the innermost of Jupiter’s four giant moons is covered in volcanoes, some emitting sulfurous plumes hundreds of miles into space. It’s been imaged by ...

Mysterious Neptune Dark Spot Detected from Earth for the First Time Aug. 24 ... Feb. 8, 2023 — Scientists have discovered a new ring system around a dwarf planet on the edge of the Solar ...

Severe space weather can leave a mark in tree rings, and a West Virginia University researcher said this evidence could aid ...

An annular solar eclipse will turn the sun into a dazzling ring of fire on Wednesday ... when the moon is at the far point in its orbit around Earth. The moon appears "smaller" than the sun ...

But today, we can consider how a near-miss asteroid and a possible ring around Earth affected life in the distant past because we know that space debris had a deep impact on life at another time.