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.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any spacecraft ever has, surviving expected temperatures of 1,800 ...

China plans to launch the Tianwen 2 probe this year, which will carry out a sample return mission from a near-Earth asteroid coded 2016HO3 and then orbit explorations ... and fundamental patterns of ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

If it’s real, some may question whether something with a mass about three times Pluto’s counts as a planet at all.

Scientists now think that a mysterious object massive enough to have gravitational interactions with the Solar System’s disk and planets flew by billions of years ago and permanently altered their ...

While planets circle the sun in what's called and heliocentric orbit, they rarely fall together in what appears to the human ...

With winds blowing at 20,500 mph, "the planet has complex weather patterns just like Earth and other planets of our own system," scientists said.

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

To put the wind speeds into perspective, the fastest winds ever observed in our solar system are on Neptune, at a speed of ...

Students were taught about different seasons, phases of the moon, and other out of this world lessons by Dunlap, who travels ...

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet-stream of its kind ever ...