Meteorites, captivating cosmic relics, provide a rare insight into the origins and evolution of our solar system. More than just rocks from the heavens, they are invaluable scientific treasures that ...

Volcanoes on distant moons, frozen oceans beneath alien crusts, and storms larger than Earth — this film uncovers ten ...

Since the 1970s, Voyager 1 has been making groundbreaking discoveries. But its journey is far from over, and it's still ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

This illustration shows the creation of an asteroid family. Ejected fragments from catastrophic collisions of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter tend to follow similar orbits around the sun, allowing ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an orbit stretching 25,000 years and a size that may qualify it as a dwarf ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's not aliens.) The interstellar comet, originally called A11pl3Z and now ...

On Aug. 12, 2026, a total solar eclipse will flash across a small part of the Northern Hemisphere, bringing totality to Greenland, Iceland and Spain. Totality lasts only a couple of minutes, but ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...