Staring at the sun—a close (but safe) look at our home star Staring at the sun ... Free learning activities and videos about the solar system Free learning activities and videos about the ...

She mapped our solar system's "alternate ... "If we discover a solar system-like system, but with a slightly different history—where instead of the natural belt, there is a planet—could ...

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

There are many theories about how dynamics in the early solar system led to the cosmic neighbourhood we now inhabit, but ...

Origins of Lunar Water and Its Connection to Earth's Early History Dec. 19 ... that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system. The ...

But arguably, it's the ugly duckling, ancient asteroids that are providing us with a better understanding of how our solar system evolved from a monstrosity of gas and dust into the protosolar ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...

Further building up their weather map ... improving our understanding of planet formation and potentially shedding light on the origins of our own Solar System," says David Cont from the Ludwig ...

and emphasized the importance of SDO in our solar early warning system. In a lot of ways, SDO has its roots in the earlier Solar and Heliospheric Observer, or SOHO, the wildly successful ESA solar ...

He began to suspect that our solar system’s history had been anything but smooth—that it had somehow endured a “global gravitational instability,” as he now calls it. In 2004 he gathered ...

Discover how a giant interstellar cloud known as the solar nebula gave birth to our solar system and everything ... Many of the asteroids in the solar system melted early on in their history to form ...