A storm as ferocious as the one of 12,350 BC would likely cause complete mayhem if it were to strike Earth and its ...

"Rings are mostly made of ice and small rocks," said William Saunders, a planetary scientist at NASA's Langley Research ...

A new NASA mission to map the solar wind has returned some of its first images from its position in low Earth orbit. The ...

most reflective moon in our solar system. And by studying the ring more closely, scientists now know why. Turns out, the moon is constantly gushing out gas and dust. Some of it ends up in space ...

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar ...

Discover the order of planets in the solar system. From Mercury to Neptune, explore our solar system and learn more about our cosmic home. The solar system is our cosmic neighborhood, made up of ...