Solar wind sounds poetic, but it's a very real and powerful phenomenon, connecting the Sun to every part of our solar system. Unlike the wind we feel .

We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...

I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

The exhibit combines ultra-high-definition images taken by the James Webb Telescope with giant models of the planets and suns ...

NASA data reveals a dramatic blue glow from the ancient interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Discover why this 8-billion-year-old visitor is baffling astronomers now.

NASA's 3I/ATLAS interstellar visitor sparks debate as Harvard's Avi Loeb suggests alien origins. Discover the 'X' shaped mystery defying the laws of physics.

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact configuration and later underwent a violent reshuffling that scattered them to ...

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial rocks reveals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying itself, melting large portions of our planet’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later pulled ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, may have been responsible for a mysterious age gap in the early solar system's planet building blocks. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya ...

When you see art of our solar system as the planet orbit the sun, you may notice that Earth's orbit has a tilt. It is not a perfect circle. What's more, Earth is not the only planet that displays such ...