How our own Solar System came to be? How we could know? Telescopes, microscopes, spectrometers, and gravitational wave detectors all help to piece together the deep history of our Solar System. Thanks ...

Scientists are reconsidering old information about Uranus. NPR's Scott Simon explains the problem with photos taken of the ...

Solar and cosmochemical data indicate high levels of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in the Sun. Researchers have unveiled a new ...

The first was the famous Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS whose dust tail of several million miles graced skies all over the ...

The “lights will go out’’ under a wind, solar, hydro model where all coal power is closed, the final day of a parliamentary ...

The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

The photograph of the Milky Way was taken by Oisin McDonnell, who is based in South Australia. He shared the image in a ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

Occasionally, during explosions called coronal mass ejections, the Sun releases charged particles that speed across the solar ...

On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...