Scientists tracking Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier found its ice shelf weakening followed an ordered pattern, driven by hidden ...

While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. What astronomers initially suspected to be a new exoplanet is ...

Around 4.5 billion years ago a giant object around the size of Mars crashed into the proto-planet Earth, called Theia. This essentially redid the planet and created the Moon, but new research suggests ...

The CRASH Clock is a new metric for measuring the risks of satellite congestion in low-Earth orbit. Its calculations are disturbing. Reading time 2 minutes Last week, a Chinese spacecraft passed ...

One bright day on Earth about 4.5 billion years ago, everything changed. A massive object slammed into the young planet. The impact was so large that bits were flung out into space, eventually ...

Earth orbit is becoming increasingly crowded. With more than 11,000 active satellites and many thousands more expected in the coming years, as well as more than 1.2 million pieces of space debris ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun. Artist’s impression of the collision between ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...