Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond ...

Sir James Jeans, one of the world’s top mathematicians and an influential physicist and astronomer at the time, advanced his tidal hypothesis of planet formation in 1916. According to this theory, ...

His team combined 20 years of data from two European spacecraft: the Mars Express, in orbit since 2004, and the ExoMars Trace ...

Damanveer Singh Grewal suggests that planetesimals in the early solar system emerged from a succession of high-energy ...

Japan has retrieved a capsule of asteroid dust from Australia's remote outback after a six-year mission that may help uncover more about the origins of the planets and water, the Asian nation's space ...

A NASA spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday, grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring home.

A recent artist's illustration depicts the planet Cha 1107-7626, situated approximately 620 light-years from Earth, released ...

A mysterious space object named 2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite,” challenges theories about the mysterious and possible Planet ...

A new NASA-backed study—relying on data from the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) satellite—suggests that ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star.