Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

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

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around it, astronomers hope to better understand how solar systems like our own ...

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

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

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

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

Eskom is encouraging the public to register a solar system as all unregistered grid-tied solar systems are now considered ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.