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

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets around a young ...

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

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

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

Astronomers have discovered 2017 OF21, a distant dwarf planet candidate located about 90 times farther from the Sun than ...

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.

Created by the sun, the protective bubble of the heliosphere shields our solar system from harmful radiation. A new mission ...

The three satellites look to measure mysteries of space weather while also acting as a warning system for its dangerous ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from ...

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

Venus is officially a lonely planet. After losing contact with the Akatsuki spacecraft last year, Japan’s space agency (JAXA) ...