NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any spacecraft ever has, surviving expected temperatures of 1,800 ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

In 2018, after six decades of dreaming, a revolutionary spacecraft launched on a mission unlike any before: to dive into the ...

Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...

Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

If it’s real, some may question whether something with a mass about three times Pluto’s counts as a planet at all.

A protoplanetary disk would have then formed out of the particles of dust and gas left over from that nebula, which in turn eventually condensed into planets that were pulled into their orbits by the ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

The dataset covers the period between September 2004 and December 2023 and will enable researchers to explore and model some ...