An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

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

Discover the fascinating findings from asteroid Bennu: pristine salt minerals reveal the presence of liquid water in the ...

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 ...

Solaris promises to be a major platform for education and research, with a particular focus on academic research into the Sun ...

Using the giant models and showing the scale of how giant and huge our solar system is really helps to hit home on that,” said lead teacher of Ohio and Kentucky’s Orbit Earth Expo, Pete Dunlap.

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...