"We're at solar maximum; to find time to make some of these big changes is going to require time and more resources, so we ...

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

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

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

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

Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...

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

Caltech scientists are developing laser-driven lightsails that could push spacecraft beyond our solar system. Their research ...

According to SpaceX’s own calculation, the Roadster completed its first orbit around the Sun in August 2019 and made its ...

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

The PUNCH mission will also involve creating an artificial total solar eclipse, which will provide an extended, ...