Outer space contains more incredible phenomenons and unsolved mysteries than anywhere else—and we think it's just fascinating ...

Discover the powerful volcanic eruptions that have shaped worlds across our solar system. Around our solar system, violent eruptions are shaping distant worlds. Discover the explosive forces that ...

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NASA's PUNCH mission has unveiled its first images of colossal solar eruptions known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) — delivering an unprecedented, wide-field view of how these solar storms travel ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system. (AP produced by Javier Arciga).

Scientists at the Simulation and Data Lab Astronomy and Astrophysics at Forschungszentrum Jülich have carried out more than 3,000 computer simulations to find the cause of the unusual orbits of the ...

It's possibly as big as Manhattan, likely older than our own solar system and it's traveling through space at speeds of up to ...

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If you could go back 4.6 billion years, you would see a time before our solar system even existed. But space wouldn’t be empty—you would encounter a cloud of gas and dust in place of our sun and the ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by the orbital mechanics of objects that act in strange and largely unexplained ways in the outer reaches of the solar system, beyond the orbit of Neptune.

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