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

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured a solar-system-size corona around a distant supermassive black hole, ...

The solar system holds extraordinary wonders, from Voyager 1’s historic journey into interstellar space after traveling ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and ...

The third interstellar object ever observed is in our neighborhood—for now. And, asteroid Bennu could contain dust from ...

NASA research reveals that the heliosphere, our solar system's protective bubble, may resemble a deflated croissant rather than a comet. This new mode ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an orbit stretching 25,000 years and a size that may qualify it as a dwarf ...

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...

Called 3I/ATLAS, the object is only the third of its kind known to astronomers, and it’s likely been heading our way for ...

A new AI model from NYU Abu Dhabi predicts solar wind days in advance with far greater accuracy than existing methods. By analyzing ultraviolet solar images, it could help protect satellites, ...

“The most likely trigger was an impact on a larger asteroid parent of Ryugu, which fractured the rock and melted buried ice, ...