NASA has shared the first closeup images of the Donaldjohanson asteroid, captured by its Lucy spacecraft on a recent flyby ...

The ongoing search for an additional planet at the solar system's edge has identified a new candidate, potentially challenging previous predictions. A research team from Taiwan, Japan and ...

The discoveries are helping them better classify different TNOs and understand the complex chemical reactions in space that may relate to the formation of our solar system and the origin of life.

and stellar radiation it ejects across the solar system. These solar storms routinely produce colorful atmospheric auroras on Earth, but especially intense events can wreak havoc on satellites and ...

Our solar system consists of four small, rocky, inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) and four large, gaseous, outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune).

But due to steep cost drops and increases in solar system efficiency levels, several other countries have rapidly increased their solar capacity over the past decade or so. As a result ...

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

Scientists have found what they are calling the strongest sign yet of possible life beyond our solar system after detecting the chemical footprint of gases in an alien planet's atmosphere that on ...

He added that scientists are exploring several places within our solar system for signs of life, including Mars, Venus, and the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn. K2-18b lies within our galaxy, the ...

It was a rare cosmic collision — and the sky responded in technicolor. A rare and rowdy “cannibal” solar eruption slammed into Earth this week, which painted the sky in jaw-dropping color ...

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