Asteroid ‘Families’ Reveal Hidden Histories and Impact Risks across the Solar System ...

Two recent studies used seismic data from NASA’s retired InSight mission to shed light on what lies beneath Mars’ surface and what it means for the planet’s history The spacecraft will map the ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an orbit stretching 25,000 years and a size that may qualify it as a dwarf ...

The interstellar visitor appears to have a lot in common with its solar system brethren. On July 1, 2025, the Deep Random Survey remote telescope in Chile, part of the ATLAS (Asteroid ...

NASA has thrown cold water on Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb's theory that interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS was sent to us by an extraterrestrial civilization — a sobering albeit unsurprising conclusion ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and ...

The Amazon founder’s space company will transport NASA's VIPER rover to the lunar south pole—if it proves capable of ...