Our solar system appears beautifully organized, but its stability is actually the result of an incredibly delicate cosmic equilibrium developed over billions of years. Toying with the positioning of ...

The mission, scheduled to launch on Monday, is headed to Phobos, the larger of the two moons of Mars. It could carry back the ...

Japan launched a $578 million mission Monday on a five-year expedition to land on the largest moon of Mars and retrieve ...

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A Japanese-led mission is launching to explore Mars’ two mysterious little moons and determine how they formed — and unlock ...

What if you made the Earth heavier? What if you added a comet to the solar system?We have created an app that lets you test ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has driven farther than any vehicle on the surface of another world, and much faster.

Several decades ago, we thought the solar system had nine planets. Then Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet. And then astronomers realized the solar system is full of dwarf planets. Recent ...

In the process of considering "Do planetary orbits change due to the pull of other planets?", I realized that while orbits are indeed constantly changing due to the pull of other planets, by ...

It has focused on the Jezero Crater, a region in the northern hemisphere of Mars believed to have been flooded with water and ...

Project Suncatcher is Google's moonshot to run AI on solar-powered satellites. Four TPUs are now in orbit, but a real data ...

A Jupiter-sized world just 7.5 light-years away is cloudy, chemically complex, and, it turns out, more like home than anyone ...