The conclusions come from patterns tracked by scientists that point to several meteorite impacts through geological records.

Roughly every 15 years, Earth passes through the plane of Saturn's rings, causing them to nearly disappear from view - not to ...

Scientists observed that all examined craters are situated within 30 degrees of the equator. This concentrated impact area, ...

The giant planet J1407b has been a weird space mystery since its discovery in 2010. But a new study revealed something about the planet that may help explain at least part of its weirdness: a ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

The eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Mercury is closest to the Sun. Neptune is the farthest. Jupiter: This planet has a faint ring system composed ...

One of the highlights to be found in this month’s Colorado sky is the golden-hued planet Saturn which can be seen forming an ...

Its mass is 93 times that of the earth, and Jupiter alone exceeds ... of 6,400 miles from the surface of the planet, and is 8,400 miles wide. This ring was discovered in 1836 by Galle, the ...

A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega ...

Encircling Earth are the Van Allen radiation belts—vast, doughnut-shaped rings of highly energetic charged particles, mostly originating from the sun, that are trapped by our planet's magnetic ...

IRISH stargazers are in for a treat tonight as a planet is set to be visible ... For the first time in 15 years, Saturn's rings are almost edge-on to Earth, making it the perfect time to catch ...

Montanans have been dazzled in recent months by colorful displays of the aurora, or northern lights, which occur when plasma ...