The superclouds probably produce star-forming clouds of gas, since most nearby stellar nurseries are located within the giants.

The Bosumtwi impact crater in Ghana is different, however. It is well preserved (not deeply eroded or buried under sediments) ...

In a recent discovery that has sent shockwaves through the scientific community, NASA’s Perseverance rover uncovered ...

Juno spacecraft data suggest an extreme compression of the planet’s magnetosphere in December 2022, caused by the solar wind, ...

August, the Perseids meteor shower puts on one of nature’s best light shows. The shower runs from about mid-July through late ...

Using data from the Vera C Rubin Observatory, experts have revealed just how big the object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, really is.

Aliens are visiting our solar system. Not little green men, sadly, but natural alien objects—cosmic bodies such as comets and ...

Astronomers think small space rocks from beyond our solar system routinely strike Earth—but proving it isn’t easy ...

Some of these flecks are even older than the Solar System itself—the presolar grains in the Murchison meteorite, for instance, go back 7 billion years.

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same time, challenging current models of our solar system’s evolution.

A rare magnetic signal revealed lithium on Mercury, showing the planet is still being reshaped by meteoroid strikes.

And one day, the solar system will cease to exist. But when will the solar system end? And how will it die out? The answers to those questions depend on how we define the death of the solar system.