In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep space will make us sick.

In fact, we didn’t know for sure that any planets at all existed beyond our solar system, and a lot of the ... s the nearest star to our own, about 4.2 light-years, or 25 trillion miles, away.

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on reentering the ...

Food Manufacture explores the ways in which producers can monitor their packaging usage and ways in which they can make it ...

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While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system. These embryos, somewhere between small planetesimals and fully formed planets ...

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... of the Moon's surface 4.35 billion years ago due ...

A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...