The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with unruly orbits are coming ...

SETI Institute communications specialist Beth Johnson welcomed Professor Dagomar Degroot, environmental historian at Georgetown University, for a discussion on his new book Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean ...

Dust brought back to Earth by China's Chang'e-6 mission contains rare meteorite relics that could change our understanding of sources of water and other life-essential ingredients in our solar system.

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

While life on Mars (and Venus) has long been an obsession for those wondering if we're alone, there are other places in our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iron meteorites suggest Earth’s nitrogen and phosphorus may have come from early inner solar system planetesimals. (CREDIT: ...

NexFuture (19/5/2026): Radioactive stardust remnants from ancient stellar explosions have been discovered trapped deep within the ice of Antarctica. According to a groundbreaking new study, these ...