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

"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 ...

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...

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

Humanity is on the verge of a new frontier—colonizing the solar system. But what’s actually stopping us? From the challenges ...

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

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 ...

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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of HH 30, a young star in the Taurus Molecular Cloud. This star is ...

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

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