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 ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has identified flickering coronal loops in the sun's atmosphere that precede large solar flares. These variations in extreme ...

making it the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Now, Io has achieved a unique record: a huge eruption detected by NASA's Juno spacecraft, the most powerful ever seen on this moon.

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.

It has been falling all this time toward the inner solar system, and it’s going to give us just one shot at studying it. According to current estimates, its next visit will be in about 740,000 years.

"NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook on what we understand about the beginnings of our solar system," said Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate ...

Feb. 4, 2025 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an 'arrow' -- a far smaller blue ...

In this discussion, we will consider science projects suitable for sponsorship by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). While a large percentage of projects at ... science ...

More than a month after a flooded data center at Stanford University knocked out data processing operations for two NASA sun-studying spacecraft, solar scientists are starting to regain access to ...

Credit: Don Pettit / NASA Comets are enormous balls of ice, dust, and rock that formed in the outer solar system, left over from the early days of planet formation about 4.6 billion years ago.