Earlier this week, the Sun unleashed a flurry of plasma and magnetic fields, or coronal mass ejection, at interstellar object ...

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

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

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

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better ...

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

Lovers of the stars, sky and space have had the option to study astronomy on the curriculum since September 2017, when ...

With advance warning, however, steps can be taken to reduce the risks. If an electrical grid is running near capacity, for ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

Object 3I/ATLAS is now too far from Earth to aim a telescope at, but prior observations showed some unusual behavior. The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought ...

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, harbored the right conditions to ...

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered dozens of NASA missions over the past 50 years But RPS is expensive, costing ...