The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

When you stream a movie, back up a photo or ask ChatGPT a question, somewhere a data center is working hard—and getting hot.

Over four billion years ago, the solar system was a wild and dangerous place. Swirling clouds of dust and gas slowly turned ...

In the 17th century, German astronomer Johannes Kepler figured out the laws of motion that made it possible to accurately ...

Mysterious spherical droplets in meteorites aren’t just cosmic oddities. They’re evidence of planetary formation.

What processes were responsible for Jupiter’s formation? This is what a recent study published in Scientific Reports hopes to ...

PRATUSH is a space payload concept that envisions orbiting the Moon’s far side, the quietest radio environment in the inner ...

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same time, challenging current models of our solar system’s evolution.

New research led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has confirmed decades-old theoretical models of magnetic reconnection, the process that releases stored magnetic energy to drive solar ...

D, high-resolution, real-topography models that could provide a more precise path of totality for the next total solar eclipse.

A tiny digital receiver system based on a compact single-board computer (SBC) about the size of a credit card, could now help us unravel the mysteries of the Cosmic Dawn, when the very first stars ...