The blue color of asteroid Phaethon has puzzled scientists since the space rock's discovery in ... to the sun than the orbit of Mercury, the solar system's innermost planet. As Phaethon zooms ...

(It is, in fact, the only moon in the solar system to have ... balancing blue filter and red filter signals from the lander’s camera. Jets of water erupt into space and fall as snow in this ...

However, NASA, with the backing of key congressional leaders, has held an iron grip on having its own heavy-lift launcher and ...

The solar system is surrounded by an eerie ghostly glow that persists after all known light sources are accounted for, according to new research from the Hubble Space Telescope. The discovery ...

According to Blue Origin, this, along with being emission-free, also makes it a more environmentally friendly system for use on Earth. "Harnessing the vast resources in space to benefit Earth is ...

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System ... background in astrophysics and a deep love of storytelling. She's especially fond of writing about ...

"Understanding the Lyman-alpha background helps shed light on nearby ... that hot interstellar gas bubbles like the one our solar system is embedded within may actually be regions of enhanced ...