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

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

Our solar system consists of the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, as well as countless asteroids and comets, that are gravitationally bound to the Sun.

If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".

The smooth, planet-less disk of the Vega star system challenges planetary formation theories, suggesting alternative cosmic ...

Astronomers are investigating the possibility of a hidden ninth planet beyond Neptune, which could explain unusual orbital patterns in the Kuiper Belt.

The only spacecraft to ever fly by Uranus, Nasa's Voyager 2, passed the seventh planet in the Solar System in 1986 - and the ...

MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. They looked for clues of an ancient magnetic field.

NASA is set to launch a brand new space telescope that can see ... explicitly designed to look for Earth-like planets." The coronagraph is a complex system of detectors, prisms, self-flexing ...

and exploration of habitable planets and extraterrestrial life. The mid- and long-term programme, guiding space science from 2024 to 2050, includes priority areas like solar system origins ...

Modest, humble, and uncommonly smart': How a Soviet mathematician quietly solved the mystery of planet ... Solar System: Surfing Saturn's Rings, Golfing on the Moon, and Other Adventures in Space ...