The same is not the case with a Jupiter moon, Europa, perhaps our best chance to find life elsewhere in the solar system.

Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

“I think not even knowing the number of planets in our own solar system is very humbling.” That means that even the facts that many people learned from textbooks as children can ...

Hot spots and tunnels to neighboring "superbubbles" seem to have been created by supernovas and infant star outbursts.

MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. They looked for clues of an ancient magnetic field.

Like other stars, the sun will eventually run out of energy and end up engulfing mercury and venus, possibly earth as well. The sun is about 150 million kilometers away from the earth.

These grains, thought to have come from the outer Solar System, may have interacted with early Earth’s water, releasing essential nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen. This interaction could ...

What percentage of the electrical grid is powered by solar? How long does it take to recoup your investment in solar panels?

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

A residential solar system from one of our top providers costs between $20,000 and $36,000. Eighty-five percent of respondents in our June 2024 survey of 1,000 homeowners with solar systems said ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover was treated to a 'googly eye' solar eclipse on Sept. 30 as the planet's moon Phobos passed in ...

We are living on a planet already hotter and more unstable than at any time in human history. Pretending otherwise will only ...