We've rounded up the best telescopes for kids. Is there a budding stargazer in your family? Maybe you're trying to cultivate a child's interest in our solar system? If you're looking for one of ...

"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it flew past Earth, which was then recovered in the desert of the U.S. state of ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

The solar system is portrayed as a dynamic, gossip-fueled family, with each planet offering snide comments about one another, ...

While not a detection of life itself, this study shows that the Solar System may have been far more conducive to life in its distant past then we previously believed. Some 4.5 billion years ago ...

Purdue professor along with a team of scientists analyze asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to give a better ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.