ASA selected two missions to explore the earliest history of our solar system, a time less than 10 million years after the birth of our Sun. The Discovery missions Psyche and Lucy were selected from ...
New forecasts are helping scientists pinpoint one of the most elusive locations in space: the outer boundary of the Sun’s ...
The exploration of our solar system is being radically changed since the beginning of operations of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in mid 2022. JWST’s extraordinary sensitivity and ...
The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with unruly orbits are coming into view, revealing hints of a surprising past – and the origin of Saturn's ...
Memories of solar impact from seven ESA spacecraft have been collected and analyzed in a first-of-its-kind study to better understand the radiation environment in space. Huge amounts of engineering ...
The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...