Earlier research held that meteorite impacts from the solar system's early days were a major source of Earth's water.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is attempting one of the most delicate maneuvers in space exploration. After collecting material ...

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the early Solar System.

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

The first of these total solar eclipses, on Aug. 12, 2026, will grace parts of Greenland, Iceland and Spain. The second, on ...

A new NASA study of its Apollo lunar soils clarifies the Moon’s record of meteorite impacts and timing of water delivery.

Christina Koch and her Artemis II crewmates have been training since 2023 for the mission that will return humans to lunar ...

Networks created to measure quakes deep underground could also track old, potentially dangerous satellites burning up in the ...

A colossal asteroid-like invader once ripped through the lunar crust, flinging out rings of mountains and scooping out a ...

Saturn and the moon will appear close together in Nevada skies. Here’s how and where to spot the pairing, known as a ...

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