We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...

For the first time, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has seen a young star forge crystals in blazing heat and hurl them to ...

Life in our solar system could exist on Europa or Enceladus, proving alien life may be common in the universe.

Scientists are sharpening the methods used to search for alien artifacts inside our own solar system, drawing on recent ...

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the early Solar System.

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

Solar Orbiter has captured the clearest evidence yet that a solar flare grows through a cascading “magnetic avalanche.” Small, weak magnetic disturbances rapidly multiplied, triggering stronger and ...

In the bigger picture, "down" could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...

Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.