Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first family portrait of the solar system! Voyager 1 was on its way toward interstellar space after completing its grand tour of the solar system at the time. Carl ...

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

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Mitchell Schwartz has a dream: to see solar panels on every Jewish institution. In 2022, the veteran communications executive ...

Geomagnetic storms also cause problems on Earth. The electric currents they create can overload power plants and cause ...

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.

Purdue professor along with a team of scientists analyze asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to give a better ...

Australia's transition to renewables is gathering speed, but there's a looming problem with storage. We will need much more ...

An image of the solar system orbiting the Sun is seen at Solaris, Israel's new solar observatory, in Isfiya. (photo credit: Idan Media/GPO) Israel has just launched its first-ever solar ...

Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...