This video explains why planets in our solar system orbit in nearly the same plane, tracing their origins back to a rotating ...

The three spacecraft will be forecasting solar storms, mapping our solar neighborhood and observing the outer layer of ...

A new study warns of an undiscovered population of asteroids that could strike Earth with little to no warning.

The Sun’s poles may hold answers to long-standing mysteries about magnetic cycles, solar wind, and space weather. The polar ...

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...

Astronomers have discovered 2017 OF21, a distant dwarf planet candidate located about 90 times farther from the Sun than Earth, making it more than twice as far as Pluto. With a highly elongated orbit ...

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers observed auroras warming the rogue planet’s upper atmosphere.

On Sept. 24, 2025, NASA launched two new missions to study the influence of the Sun on the solar system, with further missions scheduled for 2026 and beyond.

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

Northern lights, or auroras, are not exclusive to Earth. Astronomers have already detected this phenomenon on most planets ...

The spacecraft will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, study how Earth’s outer atmosphere reacts to solar activity and ...

(While the iron oxide on the Moon does not turn it red, to go along with the concept of 'rusting', the thumbnail image — ...