Asteroids are not just random rocks — some are massive, fast, strangely shaped, or on trajectories that make scientists pay ...

Back in 1965, Nissan made 100 kei cars specifically for children as an amusement park, in the form of the interestingly named ...

Recently, scientists discovered the fastest-spinning large asteroid in the solar system.It’s about the length of eight ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

3I/ATLAS has now made its closest approach to the sun and Earth and is now heading back out toward the outer solar system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...

Earth has the perfect combination of a livable atmosphere and a protective magnetic field that prevents the Sun's harmful radiation and radioactive solar winds from damaging us, allowing us to live on ...

It may not feel like it, but everything in the universe is in constant motion. Our Sun, with all its planets, orbits the center of the Milky Way, flying through the cosmos at around 450,000 miles per ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. This latest “inner kernel” was identified by ...

Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals formed much later than expected. These late-forming bodies match the ages and ...

How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the key tests of our cosmological understanding. A research team led by ...

Though we've made progress, "there's still a long way to go" when it comes to the adoption process, says a family expert — including protecting the safety of young people who are in foster care as ...