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

Solar System's Run-In With 'Space Cloud' May Have Triggered a Series of Ice Ages 2 Million Years Ago, Says Scientists Around two million years ago, Earth underwent a series of temperature fluctuations ...

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Auroras are not just on Earth. NASA has detected glowing northern and southern lights on Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and other ...

A new analysis estimates that the asteroid belt is steadily losing mass each year, and may not be as permanent a feature of the solar system as we thought. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

For more than a century, popular culture has promised that humanity will spread effortlessly across the Solar System, turning ...

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond Neptune, it orbits the sun every 25,000 years. When you purchase through links ...

Powerful solar storm causes GPS disruptions & stunning auroras. Learn about the impact of solar radiation storms on technology and aviation.

Researchers estimate that the planet has about a 50% chance of being in its star's Hoble zone.

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying itself, melting large portions of our planet’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later pulled ...