Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with the Andromeda Galaxy? Bryan ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

A star system has been discovered to be moving at an estimated 1.2 million miles per hour, making it possibly the fastest moving solar system in our galaxy.

A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved ... pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...