The NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter recently recorded the highest-ever concentration of a rare helium isotope (3He) emitted from the Sun. A Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists sought the source ...

"We're trying to encounter an astronomical object that streaks through our solar system just once and we don’t want to miss ...

"This mission's trailblazing research is rewriting the textbooks on solar science by going to a place no human-made object ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, researchers said.

Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to ...

The HR 8799 system, a mere 30 million years old, is a cosmic youngster compared to our 4.6 billion-year-old solar system. Its planets, still radiating heat from their turbulent formation ...

Potential cuts of up to 50 per cent of NASA's science budget could mean cancelling missions including the Hubble Space ...

The powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured a series of remote planets in the HR 8799 star system that are 130 light years away in the Milky Way, and they are very strikin ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe team won the 2024 Collier Trophy for boldly venturing into the Sun’s atmosphere. With revolutionary ...

NASA, Johns Hopkins University Although intense ... systems and how we can utilize these insights to “understand our own solar system, life, and ourselves in the comparison to other exoplanetary ...