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.

"We hypothesize that the ring image resulted from errors during EHT's imaging analysis and that part of it was an artifact, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Model simulations offer insights into the fundamental properties of the solar magnetic field. New studies suggest that the Sun, like Earth, has polar vortices influenced by its magnetic environment. U ...

NASA's Hubble Watches 'Spoke Season' on Saturn Dec. 21, 2023 — A new photo of Saturn was taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope ... of the second outermost ring around ... Feb. 9, 2023 ...

NOAA shared new images taken by the world's first operational space-based ... will likely hit Earth this weekend and trigger vibrant aurora displays. On Oct. 2, a partial "ring of fire" solar ...

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.