"The Earth could be moved away from its orbit through the action of a massive interstellar object, flying through interstellar space and coming into the solar system and passing close to the Earth ...

If we set off in a spaceship traveling at the speed of light from Earth, we would reach the Moon in just 1.3 seconds. The distance of 380,000 kilometers between the Earth and the Moon is merely a ...

The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought experiment to it, highlighting everything ...

The solar system is made up of the Earth, the sun and the rest of the planets. Within the system, the planets rotate around the sun in an anticlockwise direction.

Archaeologists unearthing a site known as Canhasan 3 Höyük, located within Turkey's Karaman province, have uncovered “the ...

Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant ...

These strange objects could explain how water arrived on Earth, but may also be a previously unrecognised threat to our planet. Now, a spacecraft is headed towards one to investigate.

Though researchers find more and more distant planets revolving around alien suns, the discoveries highlight that Earth and its solar system may be an exceptionally rare place indeed.

Krypton from the Earth’s mantle, collected from geologic hot spots in Iceland and the Galapagos Islands, reveals a clearer picture of how our planet formed, according to new research from the ...

Today, scientists proclaim that the Solar System is 4.6 billion years old, give or take a few million years. But how do we know this? And are, say, the Earth and Sun the same age?

A high-precision time measurement system based on the radioactive decay of manganese-53 was used to determine the precise age. This isotope was present in the early Solar System and decayed to ...