She mapped our solar system's "alternate fate" had it housed an extra planet between Mars and Jupiter instead of the existing asteroid belt. Simpson's paper, "How might a planet between Mars and ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than just dazzling streaks of light as meteors, these ancient fragments are among ...

Using data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey, astronomers have created a 3D map of the low-density bubble of X-ray-emitting, million-degree hot gas that surrounds the solar system. The investigation ...

What the animated exoplanet timeline shows The video shows a flattened map of the 360-degree night ... it looks this way because our solar system drifts within the spiral galaxy.

The sun was caught bursting out a huge quantity of helium-3, an isotope that's scarce in our solar system. Europe's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has chronicled the development of the magnetic escape ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in exoplanets within the HR 8799 system, 130 light-years away. This ...