NASA’s Psyche probe nears Mars for gravity boost en route to metal-rich asteroid
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, May 14 (Reuters) – NASA’s Psyche probe was headed for a close encounter…
Scientists may have just found 10,000 planets beyond our solar system
Lurking throughout the distant cosmos beyond the solar system, researchers recently found what they believe could be another…
The Remains of at Least 7 Probes May Still Exist on This Hellish Planet
As the hottest planet in the solar system, Venus is an uninviting, hostile world with crushing atmospheric pressure…
Visitor Approaches From the Edge of the Solar System
For thousands of years, astronomers have watched Halley’s Comet come and go, becoming visible to the naked eye…
Mercury has a 10-mile-thick layer of diamonds under its surface
Mercury does not look like a world built for extravagance. It is small, battered, sun-scorched and gray. Yet…
Rare Comet Appears Over New Zealand, Australia and South Africa
The night skies above the Southern Hemisphere will host a rare visitor over the next two weeks. A…
Astronomers believe they’ve detected an atmosphere around a tiny, icy world beyond Pluto
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A new study suggests that a tiny, icy world beyond Pluto harbors a…
Interstellar comet came from a much different solar system than ours
Astronomers using radio telescope observations to get an inside look at an interstellar comet have gleaned new insights…
Two rovers, two sides of Mars. See NASA’s side-by-side comparison
NASA has two car-sized vehicles on the ground exploring areas of Mars’s surface that are billions of years…
Alien comet reveals our solar system is the oddball
Comet 3I/ATLAS, an object from another star that was found speeding through our solar system last summer, is…
2 solar flares in just 7 hours knock out Earth radio signals: NASA
Talk about a heated situation. The sun unleashed two colossal solar flares within seven hours of each other…
Scientists Probed the Rings Around Uranus to Find Out How They Got There
The cold, icy world of Uranus is framed by a pair of rings that orbit the planet at…