Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

Eight planets, hundreds of moons, hundreds of thousands of asteroids, and billions of comets orbiting our Sun make up our ...

G3 (ATLAS) blazed past the Sun, captured in stunning detail by the SOHO spacecraft. Scientists used its passage to study how ...

Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th.

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

G3 (ATLAS) is one of the few comets on record that became bright enough to be visible in the daytime without optical aid like ...

New Solar Composition Ratios That Could Reconcile Longstanding Questions Nov. 12, 2024 — A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets ...

A comet believed to be in its death throes could briefly be seen over Tasmania this week as it hurtled through the cosmos in ...

High solar activity levels have historically been linked to warmer temperatures, on average, across Earth, according to the ...

Trillions of icy exocomets have been found orbiting alien stars, reshaping our understanding of planetary systems.

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...