New research by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the National Science Foundation's National Center for Atmospheric ...

Scientists have long know many objects floating at the solar system's out edges resemble snowmen, but the reasons why were never clear. Now a student at Michigan State University has created the first ...

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised ...

Earth and Mars were formed from material that largely originated in the inner solar system; only a few percent of the building blocks of these two planets originated beyond Jupiter's orbit. A group of ...

The infrared space telescope also detected water vapor, carbon dioxide and organic compounds streaming from the departing comet two months after it made its closest approach to the sun. When you ...

There seems to be an enormous cloud of dark matter next to our solar system. We have never found one of these clouds in the Milky Way before, but precise cosmic clocks called pulsars finally made it ...

Experience space like never before with this Python simulation of the ISS orbit – upgraded animation! 🌌 Watch the International Space Station (ISS) move along its trajectory with realistic ...

Recently, scientists discovered the fastest-spinning large asteroid in the solar system. It’s about the length of eight football fields — but it fully rotates every two minutes, or even a little ...

Venus looks like Earth’s twin at first glance, yet its rotation behaves like a cosmic prank. The planet spins backward, crawls through a day that outlasts its year, and even changes its spin rate in ...

An idea about the sun’s magnetic field called the terminator model could help predict dangerous space weather more accurately ...