Artist's concept showing a very young star surrounded by a disk of gas and dust. (NASA/JPL) There are many contrasts between ice and fire in both real and fictional worlds – from the volcanoes of ...

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

Researchers have discovered a white dwarf surrounded by a debris disk with 2 separate rings. It offers a possible glimpse of ...

Asteroid Bennu has been keeping a secret for 4.5 billion years, and scientists are finally starting to uncover it. New ...

Rather than directly converting photons into electricity, concentrated solar energy uses mirrors to turn sunlight into heat, ...

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Nearly eight years after its historic Pluto flyby, NASA's New Horizons probe is getting ready for another round of observations made from the icy edge of the solar system—and this time, its field of ...

Introduction: NASA's solar system exploration paradigm : the first fifty years and a look at the next fifty / James L. Green and Kristen J. Erickson -- Part I. Overview. Exploring the Solar System : ...

Both inside and outside the solar system, aurorae light up the skies of planets, moons, and a variety of other celestial objects. With their emissions ranging from X-ray to radio wavelengths, aurorae ...

Research in Solar System planetary science spans the origin, evolution and present‐day processes affecting planets, moons, minor bodies and their interactions. The field addresses how protoplanetary ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a bizarre, potentially historic discovery: the first moon ever detected beyond our ...