Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

When we think about asteroids that could threaten Earth, we often imagine massive, city-sized rocks hurtling through space. But what if the real danger comes from much smaller, barely detectable ones?

Stars whizzing by our solar system could cause more havoc than astronomers ... be commonplace in other planetary systems. While the orbits of the planets were once thought to be as predictable ...

The mission has a Narrow Field Imager (NFI) and three Wide Field Imagers (WFIs). The NFI snaps pictures of the corona around ...

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PUNCH’s vibrant first images reveal the solar wind in a whole new light — literally. This ambitious NASA mission is set to ...

A green glow snapped from Mars marks the first time that an aurora has been observed from the surface of another planet.

Cosmic XR is a mixed reality app for Meta Quest, designed to bring the solar system—and the grandeur of outer space—into your ...

Earth—our tiny blue dot in the galaxy—is approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the Milky Way called the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). This region holds clues ...

The mystery of how planets and icy objects formed in the farthest reaches of our solar system just took an exciting turn. A ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a computational imaging system that borrows techniques from astronomy to reconstruct 4D videos of freely moving small model organisms, like ...