The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

The solar system holds extraordinary wonders, from Voyager 1’s historic journey into interstellar space after traveling ...

Astronomers say that mysterious interstellar visitors like 'Oumuamua and 3I/ATLAS are the most common large bodies in the ...

The third interstellar object ever observed is in our neighborhood—for now. And, asteroid Bennu could contain dust from ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and ...

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...

NASA research reveals that the heliosphere, our solar system's protective bubble, may resemble a deflated croissant rather than a comet. This new mode ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an orbit stretching 25,000 years and a size that may qualify it as a dwarf ...

“The most likely trigger was an impact on a larger asteroid parent of Ryugu, which fractured the rock and melted buried ice, ...

Riding alongside IMAP, NOAA's SWFO-L1 will serve as a dedicated solar alert system, monitoring space weather and energetic ...

A new AI model from NYU Abu Dhabi predicts solar wind days in advance with far greater accuracy than existing methods. By analyzing ultraviolet solar images, it could help protect satellites, ...