Ancient grains inside one of the oldest known meteorites reveal that a surprisingly strong magnetic field existed during the solar system’s first 200,000 years. The discovery suggests magnetism worked ...

Earth is the only life-supporting planet in our Solar System. Until now. Today, we’re bringing Kepler 22-b into our planetary ...

Iron meteorites show the first bodies of the early solar system were 83% to 92% dry rock, with water arriving millions of ...

Thousands of planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, offering clues to where life might thrive and whether ...

A total solar eclipse will create a celestial spectacle in the sky for the first time in more than two years on August 12. A total solar eclipse happens when the moon passes between the sun and Earth, ...

Learn more about two of the earliest reports of a total solar eclipse and corona, which were recorded in China, and solve several mysteries about our ancient Solar System. Researchers have returned to ...

"From our unique perspective on Earth during a total solar eclipse, scientists can study the sun's corona in a way we can't from anywhere else in the solar system," said Kelly Korreck, eclipse program ...