Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy material, the ingredients of planets," according to NASA's Goddard Space ...

A large team of researchers working on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Collaboration, which has been analyzing eleven years' ...

In 2023, the European Space Agency reported on Solar Orbiter's discovery of tiny jets near the sun's south pole that could be powering the solar wind. The team behind this research has now used even ...

Here’s what you should know when you go outside to see for yourself: Yes, the planets are indeed lined up across our sky. No, ...

The ESA’s Gaia mission mapped the positions and velocities of stars with extreme precision by measuring about one billion ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a seven-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

An instrument created by a team at the University of New Hampshire was recently installed onto a spacecraft that is preparing ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically thought of as 'metal' are vaporized into the atmosphere." ...