NASA's new mission, Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH), is scheduled to launch on February 27 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot from a procession of robotic spacecraft attempting to land on the moon. How ...

an inner belt closer to the planet, and an outer belt encircling both. This is a good thing; it's sort of like a planetary defense system that protects our planet from direct bombardment by solar ...

and elemental ratios that indicate they could only have formed in the inner solar system. "Angrites are a small group of ancient meteorites that formed within the first few million years of solar ...

The temporary belts, one of which still remains, were filled with high-energy electrons and protons and were found by a ...

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

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...

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 ...

Earth's inner core has changed shape over the past 20 years. A team of scientists studied the core's behavior to understand why its rotation slowed down ...

The resulting ... Magnetic Field Maps of the Sun's Corona Sep. 11, 2024 — Astronomers have achieved a major breakthrough in solar physics by successfully producing detailed maps of the Sun's ...

These events occur because all of the planets in the solar system orbit the sun on a relatively flat, disc-shaped plane — akin to cars on a racetrack. Each planet takes a different length of ...