Since the dawn of the solar system, rocky visitors from deep space have blazed across Earth’s skies. When will the next ...

Scientists may have identified one of the Solar System’s most important “planet factories” hidden just beyond Jupiter.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered ...

Climbing the world’s tallest mountains is a daring adventure. But you’re about to make an epic extraterrestrial trek on the ...

The largest moon in the solar system — Jupiter’s Ganymede — has a unique and inexplicable magnetic field. New research could ...

And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.

Approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a cold cloud of gas and dust buried deep in one of the Milky Way galaxy’s spiral arms started to collapse. From there, gravity worked its magic. The cloud began to ...

From meteorites that impact Earth, to a moon that orbits backwards, to an imposter lurking in the asteroid belt, a variety of strange, wandering worlds are rewriting what we know – and even how we ...