Created by the sun, the protective bubble of the heliosphere shields our solar system from harmful radiation. A new mission ...

SpaceX's Falcon 9 lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday to deploy three ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, our corner of space was basically just a boring cloud of gas and dust floating […] ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...

The spacecraft will study the solar system's edge, magnetic fields in interplanetary space, and remnants of exploded stars.

The Sun's formation caused temperature differences in the surrounding disk of gas and dust. Inner, hotter regions formed rocky planets from less volatile elements. Outer, colder regions allowed ...

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A new planetary system is forming around the young star HOPS-315. Scientists observed the earliest stages of planet formation around another star. The process involves the cooling and solidifying of ...

NASA spotted a new moon almost at the border of our solar system. Back in 1986, a theory came up that this cosmic body could ...

The chemical make-up of crystals that formed from magma hint at an increase in the number of meteorites battering Earth’s ...

Discovery of oxygen raises new questions about how solar system formed. In this undated photo, Rosetta finds oxygen on comet 67P. ESA/Rosetta/NavCam – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0 — -- The European Space ...