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Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the ...

19, 2024 — Scientists have unveiled groundbreaking research on the origins of lunar water, offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar ...

NASA's IMAP mission will delve into the mysteries of the heliosphere, mapping its boundaries and studying solar wind ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope and advanced computer models have classified a type of planet unlike any in our ...

NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar is closely tracking asteroid 2024 PT5 during its nearest approach to Earth, a distance ...

Mars is known as the 'Red Planet.' Learn about its reddish hue, caused by iron oxide, its position as the fourth planet from ...

The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...

Some space conspiracy theories just won't go away.

A research team from the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) has discovered another piece in the puzzle of the formation of the Moon and water on Earth ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitors asteroid 2022 CE2, expected to safely pass Earth on January 16, 2025. The ...