A team from Nagoya University in Japan and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) have used a new method to ...

Rowan University geology chair Harold Connolly, Jr., Ph.D., who serves as mission sample scientist for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ...

With an updated edition of his 2019 book, Greg Nemet looks at global progress and puts U.S. obstacles in perspective.

The Solar System has a total of 419 known moons around planets. If we count dwarf planets, asteroids, and other worlds, the ...

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...

Astronomers have re-calculated the age of our solar system, and found it is very slightly older than we thought – 1.1 million years older, in fact.

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.

Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find ...