WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet and the solar system seem like a lot to fit in 4 ...

Astronomer and Pluto mission leader S. Alan Stern explores how the field has transformed during his decades-long career.

NASA's PUNCH mission has unveiled its first images of colossal solar eruptions known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) — delivering an unprecedented, wide-field view of how these solar storms travel ...

While its star projector leaves a lot to be desired, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a fantastic educational tool for kids, with its solar system model, complete with talking ...

NASA and IBM led the development of a groundbreaking new heliophysics AI model, validated by a team of scientists from eight American institutions led by Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Andrés ...

Solar Orbiter flew closer to the Sun than ever before. This proximity let it capture electrons in pristine conditions.

There’s a giant ball of ice barreling through the solar system right now, and it’s bigger than any we’ve seen before. It poses no threat to Earth, but this comet, called C/2014 UN271 ...

A new celestial object has been uncovered on the edge of our solar system, revealing another piece of the vast puzzle that is our cosmic neighborhood. Discovered using the Subaru Telescope at Mauna ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Our solar system has been around for 4.6 billion years. While that sounds like a long time, it's ...

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system. First named A11pl3Z and now designated as ...

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