Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped ...
Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades—and now scientists have shown why. Observations from Earth have shown ...
The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...
In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...
Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies that holds the secrets to the solar system’s formation.
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...
It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.
Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India ...
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to discover new worlds goes on, we’re steadily learning more about the ...
Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...