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The White House's 2026 budget request axes NASA's long-held plan to bring Mars samples to Earth for analysis. Here's why that cancellation would be a mistake.

Discover the order of planets in the solar system. From Mercury to Neptune, explore our solar system and learn more about our cosmic home. The solar system is our cosmic neighborhood, made up of ...

New research reveals how Saharan dust impacts solar energy generation in Europe. Dust from North Africa reduces photovoltaic (PV) power output by scattering sunlight, absorbing irradiance ...

A giant object that has been lurking in the relative galactic vicinity of the Solar System this entire time has just been unmasked in all its enormous, invisible glory. Just 300 light-years away, at ...

This flyby marked a major milestone as Lucy completed its second encounter in its planned 12-year journey across the solar system. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is on a bold journey to explore the Trojan ...

while raising new questions about the second group's muted signatures. Reaching Back in Time and Space TNOs are important to our understanding of our solar system's origins because they are ...

"This result suggests that in Jupiter-like orbits, most planetary systems may not mirror our solar system," said co-author Youn Kil Jung of the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute ...

Scientists have found what they are calling the strongest sign yet of possible life beyond our solar system after detecting ... principal scientist at the Space Science Division of the Southwest ...

Researchers have found a candidate for the hypothetical Planet Nine, which could be an undiscovered giant planet way out in our solar system. However, as with all ninth planet research ...

The second-ever partial solar eclipse of the year occurred on Tuesday, October 25, in Wiltshire, Southern England. The astronomical phenomenon became visible in the UK at around 10:08 AM ...