A new educational attraction in Swartz Creek is offering families a chance to explore the solar system without leaving the ...

Meet the surprising, oddball worlds moving around our solar system. From meteorites that impact Earth, to a moon that orbits backwards, to an imposter lurking in the asteroid belt, a variety of ...

What are the weirdest worlds in our solar system, and how did they come to be? From a dwarf planet that looks like a deflated football, to a tiny moon with cliffs taller than Mt. Everest, to the ...

Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to the sun, is probably shedding comets and asteroids into our solar system — and even producing a few meteors in our sky. Located just 4.3 light-years from ...

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

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.

In 2076, the dwarf planet Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 11,400 years, and scientists are now figuring out the best way to visit the outer solar system visitor before its too late.

As the mysterious interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS plummets through our Solar System, NASA's good old Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best look yet at the interstellar visitor. On July 21 ...

The birth of a new solar system may have been caught on camera. About 1,400 light-years from Earth sits a young sunlike star surrounded by cooling gas and teensy silicate minerals. These mineral ...