This video explores the key characteristics of each planet within our solar system. Suitable for teaching science at KS1 and ...

A high stakes voyage The European Space Agency launched the Rosetta spacecraft in 2004. Its destination was a massive, fast ...

This cosmic visitor is now officially named 3I/ATLAS, and it appears to be a comet from another solar system. Reading time 3 minutes Update: July 3, 09:24 a.m. ET: On Wednesday, July 2, the ...

The new goal of the revamped program was to study the outer solar system and the interstellar medium beyond the sun’s ...

Hints of high-pressure chemistry within a rare meteorite suggest this fallen space rock comes from a planet gone wrong in the solar system’s early history NASA ordered its astronauts to take refuge ...

Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos – from snapping the moon in half to causing a gravitational wave apocalypse – and subjects them to the ...

The Sun is the source of energy for life on Earth and is the strongest modulator of the human physical environment. In fact, the Sun’s influence extends throughout the solar system, both through ...

What to the solar wind at the boundary between the solar system and the interstellar medium? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international ...

PARIS, France — An interstellar comet that blazed past the Sun last year could be nearly three times older than our Solar System and is unlike anything ever before seen in our cosmic backyard, ...