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

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

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

Use precise geolocation data. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Store and/or access information on a ...

When deciding if it's worth installing solar panels, you may want to know when they will start saving you money.

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

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

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

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

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

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a host of other puzzles connected to the solar system's deep past ...

Helping Americans build new wealth while scaling clean energy is a bipartisan win-win. This is how we help Americans become ...