The large golden aura is formed from the incoming light reflected off the sun-side of the occulter, a device that blocks the ...

The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and ...

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

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

Solar material from the eruption will likely miss Earth. A massive solar filament erupted in dramatic fashion last night (May ...

The result may have been comparable to Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system. Early in the history of the solar system, a massive protoplanet plowed into a young Earth.

Titan is a strange world, at -300 degrees Fahrenheit, and shrouded in a jaundiced smog. Similar to Earth, the atmosphere is ...

Asteroid 2003 MH4, a large space rock about three football fields in length, will make a close approach to Earth around May ...

Earth has only one natural satellite, the moon, which is relatively large compared ... dominates over the gravitational pull of the sun) with "minimoons" being a subset that complete at least ...

On May 6, 2025, BGR reported that scientists with NASA and Japan 's Toho University used the computer to determine "when all life will end" on earth. They determined that the sun will end life on ...

A s the most massive planet in the Solar System, and first to form, Jupiter’s gravity shaped the formation of everything else ...

Billions of years ago, in the frozen edges of the solar system, a violent impact shaped one of space’s oddest pairs. Instead ...