3I/ATLAS captured the world's attention last month as the comet raced past the Earth, but some believed that it could have ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young star flinging heat-formed crystals outward on a cosmic conveyor belt, ...

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

Earth and its neighbors orbit the sun on a relatively flat plane. But what's below this plane, and is anythign below the ...

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

“Bit by bit, these tiny building blocks land on rocky planets within a newly formed solar system. If those planets happen to ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise direction. However, the universe never ceases to amaze us with its unexpected ...

In spring 2002, Chelsey Bryant Krug flew to Colorado in search of a job. She had just enrolled as a graduate student in aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. She found ...

Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.

With a lot of talk about space recently, have you ever wondered which are the hottest planets in the solar system? You'd think the closer you are to the sun, the hotter they must be. Now that's mostly ...

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