There’s a new object in the distant reaches of our solar system, and it might just offer clues to a long-standing cosmic ...

Jupiter may have once been more than twice its current size, with a magnetic field 50 times stronger, say scientists who ...

A new study reveals that Jupiter has massive primordial form and powerful magnetic field, offering fresh insights into how it ...

Mercury, for instance, is already the wild card of the inner planets. Its orbit grows more eccentric over time, increasing ...

Hunting for the building blocks of life? Located in the asteroid belt, Ceres is likely a good bet, study finds ...

Of these ‘six invisible threats’, three named 2020 SB, 524522, and 2020 CL1 ‘have a severe risk of collision’ as their orbits ...

Artist concept highlighting the novel approach proposed by the 2025 NIAC awarded selection of the TFINER concept.NASA/James ...

DG5 is classified within the Apollo group—asteroids characterized by orbits that cross Earth's trajectory around the Sun. It ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the US National Science Foundation and US Department of Energy's Office of ...

As the ‘bird wing’ solar eruption's tail passes Earth, there’s still a slight chance of spotting the Northern Lights over parts of the UK on Friday night.

On a grander scale, Bennu and OSIRIS-REx symbolize two parallel revolutions in modern astronomy that are upending old conceptions of the solar system ... and comet orbits, issued an ominous ...