Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

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

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

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

New research shows that star activity can distort exoplanet measurements, affecting size, temperature, and atmosphere ...

THE search for alien life across our Solar System and beyond has so far kicked up nothing intelligent – let alone microbial.

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system. The ... Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists recently led a team that found, for the first ...

NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically ...