The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...

Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the ...

The most elusive planetary aurora in the Solar System has finally been revealed in all its gently glowing glory.

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

“It’s like putting your thumb in front of the sun when you look ... “If these huge planets act like bowling balls cruising through our solar system, they can disrupt, protect or, in a ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...

Most of these planets are about the same size and spaced ... in many cases closer than Mercury is to the Sun. Our solar system, in contrast, appears to be different. “[Planetary scientists ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...