Data may challenge and reshape current models of solar wind evolution. A recent study led by Dr. Michael Starkey of the ...

Material collected from an asteroid via spacecraft closely matches the heavier elements of the sun, providing scientists with ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

A team of scientists at the Southwest Research Institute, using photography commissioned from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, have discovered a previously unknown moon in our solar system that's in ...

Taylor King Boyles has been dreaming about solar electricity ever since he watched a Reading Rainbow episode about solar powered cars as a child. Mr. King Boyles, now 35, recalls making quips about ...

Somewhere at the edge of the solar system a new Earth-sized world might be lurking, dubbed Planet Y. Astronomers have long proposed that there might be hidden planets beyond the Kuiper belt, a region ...

A new image has revealed the clearest glimpse yet of an interstellar visitor zipping through our solar system.Video above: Astronomers discover how planets formThe Hubble Telescope and its Wide Field ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

BROOMFIELD, Colo., August 11, 2025 – MMA Space has developed a low-cost solar array capable of generating tens of kilowatts that can be manufactured in a fraction of the time of conventional solar ...

Key takeaway: What is 3I/ATLAS? This comet, discovered by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), was first detected 420 million miles from the sun on July 1. The Hubble ...

While its star projector leaves a lot to be desired, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a fantastic educational tool for kids, with its solar system model, complete with talking ...

Astronomers have found a septet of superclouds lying just beyond the solar system. These giant strings of gas — five of which were previously unknown — sit nearly parallel to each other, and most of ...