With a rare black moon and the peak of the year's first major meteor shower already behind us, January is shaping up to be an ...
New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing ...
Billions of years ago, in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, two icy worlds collided. Rather than destroying each other in a cosmic ...
Billions of years ago, in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, two icy worlds collided. Rather than destroying each ...
The love story between Pluto and Charon may have started with a kiss. A new study suggests the dwarf planet and its scarcely smaller moon likely came together in a collision that saw them conjoined ...
A solar eclipse crossed North America. Two robotic landers reached the lunar surface, largely intact. The most powerful ...
From a total lunar eclipse to meteor showers to space probes, 2025 will be stellar for celestial viewing. Those and more will ...
The Parker Solar Probe, partly designed by students and researchers in Colorado, survived its closest encounter with our sun, ...
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.
What Is a Magnetosphere? A magnetosphere is the region surrounding a planet that is dominated by its magnetic field. While ...