When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth.

Learn more about volcanic activity on Mars and how it may have once provided vital elements to the atmosphere.

The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are ...

Westfield High School senior Kaitlynn Goulette and freshman Krystyna Goulette have developed a walkable, scale model of the ...

Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though ...

Could you survive a day on every planet in our solar system? Experience the extreme conditions across the planets in a single ...

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

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

Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.

Earlier this year, a team of astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus that is minuscule, with a diameter of about 10km.

Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...

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