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

With the Interstellar Dust Experiment, scientists hope to learn more about the materials that compose our solar system and ...

The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is the first mission focused on studying changes in the exosphere, the Earth’s outermost ...

The data suggests that interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS may share many of the evolutionary ... Into the Solar System The post Mysterious Object Headed Into Our Solar System Is Changing Shape, New ...

The newborn planetary system appears to be emerging 1,300 light-years away around a baby star known as HOPS-315. Planet-forming materials were first identified using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

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

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS. A remarkable ...

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Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, was 2 to 2.5 times bigger in its earlier life, according to new research. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik Jupiter, the ...

The birth of a new solar system may have been caught on camera. About 1,400 light-years from Earth sits a young sunlike star surrounded by cooling gas and teensy silicate minerals. These mineral ...