Asteroid ‘Families’ Reveal Hidden Histories and Impact Risks across the Solar System ...

The spacecraft will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, study how Earth’s outer atmosphere reacts to solar activity and ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have confirmed the approach of a “wandering planet” into our solar system. This ...

NASA is set to launch three spacecrafts Tuesday with the goal of unlocking the mysteries of solar weather at the edge of our ...

The comet, named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third confirmed interstellar object ever seen in our solar system. That means it came ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

Saturn is known for its iconic rings, but it should also probably be known for its moons. The ringed world was already the record holder for the most natural satellites of any planet in the Solar ...

Dwarf planet 2023 KQ14, Ammonite, has a stable orbit that challenges the hypothesis of the mysterious Planet Nine.

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...

The chemical make-up of crystals that formed from magma hint at an increase in the number of meteorites battering Earth’s ...