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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

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