It is the giant crowned with light, a planet whose rings have inspired centuries of wonder and scientific obsession. This feature explores the storms, moons, and mysteries of Saturn, the most ...

While many dream of bases on Mars and cities above Venus, the reality of colonizing the Solar System is far more difficult and may be impossible with today’s technology. NATO scrambles fighter jets as ...

This illustration shows the creation of an asteroid family. Ejected fragments from catastrophic collisions of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter tend to follow similar orbits around the sun, allowing ...

Ryan French receives funding from NASA. On Sept. 24, 2025, NASA launched two new missions to study the influence of the Sun on the solar system, with further missions scheduled for 2026 and beyond.

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...

We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...

The Moon reaches apogee, the farthest point from Earth in its orbit, at 5:46 A.M. EDT. At that time, our satellite will stand 251,996 miles (405,548 km) away. With the Moon sinking low in the hours ...

As a life-long lover of sci-fi battle scenes, it is always a joy to order a fleet of dozens of starships of all shapes and sizes to hyper-jump to a neighboring planet, then zoom in and watch as they ...

The three missions launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket the morning of September 24. NASA A SpaceX launch early Wednesday morning sent a trio of spacecraft toward a destination almost one million ...

Chad is aiming to deploy 520 MW of new solar by the end of the decade. The target forms part of the country's national development plan, Chad Connection 2030, which launched earlier this year. The ...