Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

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Scientists have officially given a name to the largest solar structure in the known universe. Astronomers have found the ...

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

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 ...

“By detecting the region outside of our solar system, by detecting actual galactic matter, we can start to unravel a whole ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

Solar masses are a unit of measurement used in astronomy to express the mass of other celestial objects in comparison to the ...

What if invisible black holes were quietly passing through our solar system without us even noticing? While that might sound like a plot from a sci-fi ... Continue Reading → ...

Cosmic rays coming from outside the Solar System bring these particles closer to the Sun, where they experience changes ...