Created by the sun, the protective bubble of the heliosphere shields our solar system from harmful radiation. A new mission has launched to map it like never before.

We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...

From Jupiter’s Great Red Spot to Neptune’s dark storms the solar system hosts tempests beyond imagination. This film explores their insane power. Police say they seized 23 guns from the home of a ...

AI-generated illustration. Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. Fire has always shaped the human story. Strike a match, watch the flare, and you’re tapping into something humans have relied on for at least ...

From exploding volcanoes on other moons to storms bigger than Earth, the solar system is packed with surprises. In this video, we explore 10 incredible facts that will change the way you look at space ...

On July 1, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected what was first believed to be an asteroid. As calculations for its orbit progressed, it was found to be from outside our ...

Growing evidence suggests that a subsurface ocean lurks beneath the icy surface of Uranus' moon Ariel, but new research, published in Icarus, characterizes the possible evolution of this ocean, and ...

In the fickle universe of popular TV entertainment, there is often a creative endeavor whose reach far exceeds its grasp for whatever particular reason at that moment in broadcast history. Case in ...

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 ...

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