Scientists say studying objects like Ammonite, despite their immense distance, offers valuable insight into the solar ...
Comet 3 Atlas, the third confirmed interstellar object, speeds through our solar system at 68 km/s. Originating from another ...
A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped ...
A view of HOPS-315, a baby star some 1,400 light-years from Earth where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. Combined with data from the James Webb Space ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system.
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...
Solar wind sounds poetic, but it's a very real and powerful phenomenon, connecting the Sun to every part of our solar system.
NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...
A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ...