Originally, the hypothesis was that Theia gave the Earth a glancing blow, and the proto-Earth and Theia lost pieces ending up as one or two moons that eventually formed the Moon. It was thought that a ...

The ultimate purpose of PUNCH is to use its four instruments — three wide-field imagers (WFI) and a near-field imager (NFI) — ...

The planets in astrology each hold a different vibe, meaning, and archetype, and exert their influence on you in ways subtle ...

New research suggests meteor showers are so unpredictable due to the Sun’s own motion around the solar‑system barycenter.

Imagine waking up one morning to a world where compasses point south instead of north, where auroras shimmer across the ...

The Southwest Research Institute-led Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission collected its first ...

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? Researchers show that this is not due to the random pull of the planets, but rather the ...

A collection of objects just 120 light-years away is a truly gob-smacking, one-of-a-kind system. It consists of two brown ...

BEIJING -- China has successfully established the world's first three-satellite constellation based on the Distant Retrograde ...

Meet the author: Dr. Phil Plait is an astronomer, author, and science communicator with a PhD in astronomy at the University ...