The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation ...

Young asteroids—which formed much later than those that were created during the formation of our solar system—are typically ...

Astronomers have discovered 2017 OF21, a distant dwarf planet candidate located about 90 times farther from the Sun than Earth, making it more than twice as far as Pluto. With a highly elongated orbit ...

The early years of our solar system were a period of unimaginable chaos and violence, a gravitational free-for-all where colliding planetary embryos competed for survival. In this tumultuous ...

The biggest threat to solar’s reputation in South Africa is the poor workmanship and lack of accountability from informal or inexperienced installers – the so-called “bakkie-brigade” – who disappear ...

The recent announcement that scientists have spotted what they believe to be evidence suggesting ancient life on Mars seemed like the latest in an endless cycle of tantalizing hints followed by pleas ...

Yan Qing professor from Minzu University of China, who also serves as deputy secretary-general of the advisory committee of ...

The City of Davis is facing a housing crisis and should focus on facilitating the addition of housing and affordable housing, ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Before Earth became a blue planet teeming with life, it was a barren, rocky world, dry as dust and ...

What can auroras on a rogue planet teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address, as an international ...

A violent collision with the hypothetical planet Theia may have delivered Earth’s water and set the stage for life.