Discover the dramatic forces creating spectacular weather on neighboring planets and moons. Out in the solar system, the weather gets wacky – with globe-spanning dust storms, monsoons of liquid ...

Astronomers propose a new hypothetical planet, Planet Y, beyond Neptune, based on observed orbital anomalies in the Kuiper ...

While kids are back in the classroom learning about math and the solar system, Davenport Police are focused on making sure ...

Published: December 15, 2024 10:32pm EST In 2017, NASA discovered and later confirmed the first interstellar object to enter our Solar System. It wasn’t aliens.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

This will be bad news for the inner planets of the solar system — including Earth. As the sun becomes a type of star called a red giant, its outer shell will expand to the orbit of Mars ...

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will eventually become planets and other objects. Observing this early phase of ...