A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Radiation belts are a normal part of the architecture of a planet with a global magnetic field. Stars are constantly leaking particles, borne by a stellar wind; these stream out and, where they ...

Lightning can be used to probe Earth’s dynamic Van Allen radiation belts, directly connecting terrestrial weather and space ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

Bitcoin tumbled below the $100,000 mark early Sunday as markets reacted to President Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs on ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

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

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted the most powerful volcanic eruption ever seen on the solar system's most volcanic body, ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.