There have been many studies done to better understand how the heliosphere interacts with other elements and what its ...

The solar system is projecting with gold but scientists can't quite figure out where all this hard-to-make metal is being ...

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Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the Solar System formed, it took no more than three million years for the ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, astronomers detected a strange, fast-moving object racing toward the Sun. Named ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured a solar-system-size corona around a distant supermassive black hole, ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and probing mysteries of the Universe.

Discover Our Solar System Through Detailed 3D Models Forget dusty textbooks and flat diagrams. We’re talking about ...

The debate over the existence of extraterrestrial life touches literature, religion, and science in 17th century Europe.

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A newly discovered distant object that astronomers have dubbed “The Cliff” could solve a riddle posed by some of the first ...

The earliest images of 3I/ATLAS, newly uncovered by Michigan State University, reveal how the interstellar object evolved as ...