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Scheduled to launch on Feb. 27, NASA's PUNCH mission could revolutionize space weather forecasts, unify the solar corona and ...

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 ... Breaking space news, the latest updates ...

Helium can help scientists detect the speed and direction at which we’re moving through space. Deuterium, which is left over ...

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx ...

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks ...

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a ...

Almost a decade after its controversial launch nearly killed any prospects at long-term success, No Man's Sky is gearing up ...

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...