The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was the third object ever discovered in our solar system that originated from another star system. Despite a viral conspiracy theory, NASA officials have repeatedly ...
NASA scientists are suddenly turning their attention to Uranus, a planet long neglected and still largely unexplored. According to a new planetary science report, a flagship mission to Uranus is now ...
The standard story of the origin of our solar system has gone like this: 4.6 billion years ago, a giant cloud of dust hung frozen in space. Then the explosion of a nearby star caused part of that dust ...
Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals formed much later than expected. These late-forming bodies match the ages and ...
As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth. Out ...
In the early 1990s, the Hubble Space Telescope picked up something odd in the local clouds that surround our solar system. An unusually large number of electrons had been ripped apart from the atoms ...
Cloud-9, shown in magenta. The circle represents the region where researchers focused their search for stars—the peak of radio emission. NASA, ESA, VLA, Gagandeep Anand (STScI), Alejandro ...
"This is one of the most exciting results from Solar Orbiter so far." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A giant solar flare on our ...
For centuries, humanity has looked to the stars with wonder, mapping distant galaxies and sending probes to the edge of our ...