How our own Solar System came to be? How we could know? Telescopes, microscopes, spectrometers, and gravitational wave detectors all help to piece together the deep history of our Solar System. Thanks ...
The first was the famous Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS whose dust tail of several million miles graced skies all over the ...
The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, will pass Earth at a distance of about 273,000 miles, just further than the moon's 238,900-mile ...
Discover more about the Sun's solar cycle and how it impacts us here on Earth, from increased auroras to overwhelmed power ...
The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.
Scientists know there were active volcanoes on the near side, the part of the moon seen from Earth, dating back to a similar ...
We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...
In November 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, Command Module Pilot (CMP) Richard F. Gordon, and ...
A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.
NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...
Researchers simulated the sun’s polar vortices using computer models, which suggest the vortices are likely driven by ...
On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...