A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped ...

Snapchat, the popular messaging app known for self-deleting messages and fun chat features, also offers a paid plan called ...

We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...

Although we don't have to worry about it for a few billion years, the sun is inexorably dying, the only question is what's ...

Jupiter harbors more oxygen than the sun, a new study finds, giving astronomers a crucial clue about how our solar system's ...

Solar prominences occur when the sun’s plasma, flowing along the magnetic field lines that the sun creates, forms a loop into space along the edge of the sun’s disk. When a prominence becomes ...

Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This ...

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NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...

The craters bear the names of astronomers who revolutionized our understanding of the night sky.

The project has recently been submitted to the European Space Agency for consideration as a future mission. The current ...