Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

This journey through a dense region of space could have compressed the heliosphere, the protective bubble surrounding our solar system, and increased the influx of interstellar dust, potentially ...

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers discovered that the inner portion of the Oort cloud likely has spiral ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

The entire solar system, ours at least, sits inside a pocket of low density called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This cavity in space is 1,000 light-years across, at least, and tips the thermometer at ...

Every Planet of Our Solar System Is Lining up in the February Night Sky NEW YORK (AP) — Seven planets grace the sky at the end of February in what's known as a planetary parade, though some will ...

This journey through a dense region of space could have compressed the heliosphere, the protective bubble surrounding our solar system, and increased the influx of interstellar dust, potentially ...

SPHEREx and PUNCH on their way to map out our universe like never ... both the corona and the broader cocoon of solar wind swaddling our solar system. The mission consists of four 140-pound ...