NASA TRACERS mission is set to study how Earth's magnetic field protects us from solar storms and space weather. The mission ...

For lovers of newly identified space objects, July has indeed been an exciting month. Last week, astronomers described ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

Recent observations of Jupiter's powerful magnetic field by NASA's Juno spacecraft have uncovered a never-before-documented ...

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Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was ...

In a cosmic first, scientists watched planet-forming materials begin to solidify around a newborn star, offering a peek into ...

Use our interactive globe to see if you’re in the ‘zone of disappointment’ for the Perseids – then save these dates for ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our understanding of how planets take shape — not only in our solar system, but ...

Even today, this icy, ringed oddball continues to keep scientists guessing. Uranus spins sideways, so each pole gets blasted ...

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will ...