The inner solar system is home to four rocky worlds that formed under the intense heat of the young Sun. This video explores Mercury, the scarred planet that is slowly shrinking; Venus, where a ...

The Gaia telescope spotted more than 6,000 sunlike stars, all of which appear to have migrated from the galaxy's center more ...

The proposed interstellar spacecraft, called Chrysalis, can carry 1,000 people on a one-way trip into deep interstellar space. It was proposed as part.

This world is part of a planetary system with four other planets, including a super-Venus and a possibly habitable ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

To uncover the history of our solar system, it is necessary to study the dynamic evolution of the ancient solar nebula materials. These materials interacted and coevolved with the weak but widespread ...

Science is messy business. Finding the truth is easier said than done.

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

Samples from Ryugu, a small, near-Earth asteroid, preserve natural remanent magnetization (NRM) from the early history of the solar system. However, despite multiple studies, there is currently no ...

Electrons in solar materials can be launched across molecules almost as fast as nature allows, thanks to tiny atomic vibrations acting like a “molecular catapult.” In experiments lasting just 18 ...

A groundbreaking study in galactic archaeology proves the Sun made a treacherous journey to reach its current home in the ...

Explore the Solar System in a way that transcends the average science project. This video showcases the relative sizes of the planets and their actual distances from the Sun, providing a clear visual ...