NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...
Auroras are not just on Earth. NASA has detected glowing northern and southern lights on Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and other ...
3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object identified by NASA as a comet, recently passed its closest point to the sun. Scientists around the world are observing its months-long journey to learn more about the ...
NASA is quietly ending financial support for independent planetary science advisory groups, according to a letter posted to ...
Forget everything you learned in school, space isn’t just an empty, frozen void. NASA’s Voyager probes have sent back shocking data from the absolute edge of our solar system, revealing something ...
The Bennu asteroid, a space rock not too far from Earth that is rich in carbon, continues to be a trove of information for scientists keen to learn about how life may have begun in our solar system.
NASA’s TESS spacecraft tracked interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in January, capturing data on its motion, brightness, and rotation before it left the solar system ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has spent the last several months on a tour of our solar system. NASA spacecraft and telescopes have snapped photos of this celestial visitor over the course of its journey ...
The interstellar visitor may still have a few things to tell us before it leaves our solar system.
Venus is one of the most hostile worlds in the solar system, with crushing pressure and surface temperatures hot enough to ...
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 ...
A new NASA study using Apollo lunar soil samples challenges a long-held theory. It suggests meteorites were not the primary ...