The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

NASA's Hubble Watches Jupiter's Great Red Spot Behave Like a Stress Ball Oct ... years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a researcher realized that the Solar System's biggest ...

New images of the mysterious Martian moon Deimos were captured when the Hera mission activated its instruments past Earth for ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about ...

The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

Although it won't be as spectacular as North America's April 2024 total solar eclipse ... crater caused by an asteroid strike about 35 million years ago. Moscow will see only a 2% eclipse ...