Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, ...

NASA Solar System ambassador Charles Fulco, of Rye Brook, teaches elementary school students about the science behind space ...

Asteroids are not just random rocks — some are massive, fast, strangely shaped, or on trajectories that make scientists pay ...

There’s a new gold rush happening — and it’s on the Moon. Nations across Earth are racing to secure the most valuable ...

For the first time, scientists have used satellite data to create a 3D map of the sun's interior magnetic field, the ...

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...

Earth has the perfect combination of a livable atmosphere and a protective magnetic field that prevents the Sun's harmful radiation and radioactive solar winds from damaging us, allowing us to live on ...

A new study with the incredibly exciting title of "Overdispersed Radio Source Counts and Excess Radio Dipole Detection" has announced quite a thrilling discovery, indeed: Our solar system is moving ...

A massive solar storm in May 2024 gave scientists an unprecedented look at how Earth’s protective plasma layer collapses under intense space weather. With the Arase satellite in a perfect observing ...

The Kuiper belt, a disc of icy rocks on the outermost edges of the solar system, seems to have more structure than we thought. In 2011, researchers found a cluster of objects there on similar orbits ...

Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals formed much later than expected. These late-forming bodies match the ages and ...

Update, Nov. 5, 2025: NOAA has upgraded its forecast to a G3 (strong) geomagnetic storm, meaning up to 21 U.S. states may see aurora overnight on Nov. 6-7, 2025. Two X-class solar flares — the ...