The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

New findings offer clues about the ancient origins of asteroids and their potential role in the formation of terrestrial ...

A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Gov. Josh Green is calling for a renewed push to expand rooftop solar. HPR's Savannah Harriman-Pote speaks with the head of ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...

Purdue professor along with a team of scientists analyze asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to give a better ...