Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...

After losing his Pacific Palisades neighborhood in the fires that swept through Los Angeles in January, Kent Tobiska, the CEO ...

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

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first family portrait of the solar system! Voyager 1 was on its way toward interstellar space after completing its grand tour of the solar system at the time. Carl ...

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

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

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

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

Helium can help scientists detect the speed and direction at which we’re moving through space. Deuterium, which is left over ...