Exoplanet L98-59d, located far beyond our solar system, might not sound like someone’s dream destination. It likely has an ...

The Solar System is a weird place filled with incredible physics and geological oddities that often break down in human terms ...

Our solar system is a weird place. Much more than a home to eight planets, it’s filled with a myriad of fascinating other smaller bodies, including moons, asteroids, and comets. In recent decades, ...

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many ...

Typically astronomers find planets of similar ages to the ones in our solar system, but that’s starting to change. In a study ...

JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA.

There’s a new science fiction film in theaters that is largely based on science fact. "Project Hail Mary," from directing duo ...

Introduction: NASA's solar system exploration paradigm : the first fifty years and a look at the next fifty / James L. Green and Kristen J. Erickson -- Part I. Overview. Exploring the Solar System : ...

Estimating ages of specific events is one of the most difficult problems in astrophysics. While we have a precise (and probably accurate) age for the solar system, we do not have precise ages for each ...