Asteroid ‘Families’ Reveal Hidden Histories and Impact Risks across the Solar System ...

Could the chemical debris of a shattered world hold clues to life elsewhere in the universe? Astronomers studying the white dwarf WD 1647+375 have discovered the biggest quantity of nitrogen ever seen ...

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

Earth is far from the only celestial body in the Solar System.

A NASA mission, IMAP, and two more spacecraft that will study space weather are traveling through space atop a single SpaceX ...

NASA’s IMAP mission will explore the heliosphere and study how it shields Earth from cosmic radiation and space weather.

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

Geomagnetic disturbances caused by solar activity could be increasing the risk of heart attacks here on Earth, according to a ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

While we haven't seen an interstellar comet being struck by a coronal mass ejection before, we have seen it happen to others. This happened on April 20, 2007, when NASA's STEREO A spacecraft saw Comet ...