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

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a ...

"Every little bit helps." State rolls out first-of-its-kind solar facility with surprising feature: 'Enabled us to move ...

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

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

Gov. Josh Green is calling for a renewed push to expand rooftop solar. HPR's Savannah Harriman-Pote speaks with the head of ...

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

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

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

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

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.