"During almost every mission we turn around and take a picture back ... tint," NASA writes. Earth's rich blue color, clearly ...

Every other solar system planet was named for a Greek ... Photograph by Garcia Julien, Getty Images We also enjoy protection from Earth's magnetic field, generated by our planet's rotation and ...

Deep Space Network's Goldstone Solar System Radar has captured a series of images of the peanut-shaped asteroid making its ...

Astronomers uncovered new details of gas flows that sculpt planet-forming disks and shape them over time, offering a glimpse ...

The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, captured a series of radar images of the near ...

Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, may hold a substantial amount of water ice beneath its surface, like an ...

World Space Week 2024 is in full swing, focusing on what space science can tell us about climate change; does Earth's "evil ...

The most well-known contact binary is probably Selam, the little moonlet accompanying the near-Earth asteroid Dinkinesh, which sits between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Discovered earlier this year ...

Technically a “temporarily captured object,” 2024 PT5 is a near-Earth asteroid and Earth’s newest mini-moon. This 11-meter ...

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are normal behavior for the Sun, particularly when it's in the peak of its activity ...

Earth is bracing for blackouts after the sun unleashed a massive X-class solar flare — the most powerful it can generate — ...

Planetary rings don’t last forever, although they do exist for millions of years. The evidence for Earth’s possible ring is ...