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 ...

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

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

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Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

A total lunar eclipse will tint the Moon red-orange on the night of March 13 or early in the morning of March 14, depending ...

A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.

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

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The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...