Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Gov. Josh Green is calling for a renewed push to expand rooftop solar. HPR's Savannah Harriman-Pote speaks with the head of ...

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

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Eskom is encouraging the public to register a solar system as all unregistered grid-tied solar systems are now considered illegal.

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...