Latest about Solar System
Scientists discover 1st evidence of 4.5-billion-year-old 'proto-Earth' buried deep within our planet
Ancient rocks from Greenland, Canada and Hawaii preserve a rare chemical fingerprint that may come from the Earth before the moon-forming impact, a new study reports.
Watch comets Lemmon and SWAN make their closest approach to Earth today (video)
The livestream is scheduled to start at 1:30 p.m. EDT (1730 GMT) on Oct. 20.
What is the moon phase today? Lunar phases 2025
Reference See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2025.
If life on Mars exists, it may be preserved in a frozen time capsule
If life ever existed on Mars, traces of it might still be frozen beneath the planet’s icy surface.
Dry ice may burrow through Mars like sandworms in 'Dune'
Blocks of carbon dioxide ice appear to carve mysterious gullies on Mars as they melt down dune slopes and blast away sand.
Where the ridge meets the river | Space photo of the day for Oct. 16, 2025
From above Earth, LandSat 9's keen eye captures a stunning Y-shaped meeting of ridge and river in China's Tarim Basin.
Asteroid discovered only 2 days ago just flew by Earth closer than the moon
A small asteroid, called 2025 TP5, safely flew by our planet on Oct. 15 at about a quarter of the distance to the moon.
A new private moon lander rises: Impulse Space throws its hat into the lunar ring
Impulse Space — which was founded by Tom Mueller, SpaceX's second-ever employee — just announced that it plans to build a robotic moon lander to help open the lunar frontier.
