Later, I researched and learned that they were referring to carbonaceous chondrites, which are those meteorites that, when ...

Experiments have helped to confirm that samples of interplanetary particles -- collected from Earth's upper atmosphere and believed to originate from comets -- contain dust leftover from the initial ...

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many more are waiting to be discovered? New images from the Hubble telescope ...

Stars form in dense clumps of gas and dust that we call stellar nurseries. Hubble has seen many stunning examples of these objects in our own and other galaxies. Yet a surprising and unexpected series ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS. A remarkable ...

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Mars has a huge network of canyons that stretches about 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) across its equator. This canyon system, called Valles Marineris, is the largest in the solar system, dwarfing ...

Music, more than a product or anything else, is a sacred act. That’s the prevailing premise of director Contessa Gayles’ award-winning Songs From The Hole, a 90-minute documentary on Netflix that ...

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered dozens of NASA missions over the past 50 years But RPS is expensive, costing ...

A new image has revealed the clearest glimpse yet of an interstellar visitor zipping through our solar system.Video above: Astronomers discover how planets formThe Hubble Telescope and its Wide Field ...

There’s no denying that there’s something truly mesmerising about a total solar eclipse. So much so that in the 90s, eclipses were hyped in their run-up, with kids all over the world scrambling to ...