Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

Analysis of meteorite Northwest Africa 12264 suggests that we may have to alter our timeline of the early Solar System, ...

Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river drainage systems. Water is the biosphere's lifeblood, and without it, Earth ...

WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...

If it weren't for the new budget, New Horizons could keep exploring the outer reaches of the solar system into the 2030s.

(Web Desk) - NASA has discovered a mysterious 'super-Earth' planet that appears to flash a repeated signal from 154 ...

Exploring the quest for alien life through Bayesian analysis, emphasizing the importance of asking the right questions in ...

U-M astronomy is helping understand this fast, old and large comet that was born outside our galactic neighborhood This diagram shows the trajectory ...

The alien world orbits a dim, reddish ball of gas called a red dwarf star in the northern constellation Lyra. Scientists ...

Clues from another dry spell 6,000 years ago are helping scientists understand what’s driving the latest one, and why it’s ...

Macquarie University astronomers have tracked an extreme planet's orbital decay, confirming it is spiralling towards its star in a cosmic death dance ...