Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

Learn how these advances in instrumentation could provide a better understanding of solar winds and improve space weather ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

While scientists continue to find out new things about the celestial objects in our own solar system, they also monitor astronomical ... a type of measurement for measuring distance in outer space. If ...

"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from the new galaxy.

Lightning can be used to probe Earth’s dynamic Van Allen radiation belts, directly connecting terrestrial weather and space ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system ... that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system.

Some 4.5 billion years ago, a monster asteroid around 60 miles wide formed in the outer reaches of the ... understand about the beginnings of our solar system,” Nicky Fox, associate ...

Scientists at NASA for the first time have been able to observe the make up of Pluto and other small and icy celestial bodies ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...