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 ...

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

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

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

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

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 ...

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

A disabled Florida veteran is facing foreclosure after purchasing a solar system he thought was financed through the Florida ...