Where will you be watching the April 8 total solar eclipse? There are just a few weeks left to pick...
How do planetary systems such as the solar system form? To find out, CNRS scientists taking part in an international...
A frequent idea in sci-fi and apocalyptic films is that of an asteroid striking Earth and causing global devastation. While...
An international team, including Western astrophysicists Els Peeters and Jan Cami, has found the destruction and re-formation of a large...
While many studies have compared the magnetic properties of confined and eruptive solar flares, few have considered the thermodynamic properties...
New observations from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft hint that the Kuiper Belt—the vast, distant outer zone of our solar system...
Stars that pass by our solar system have altered the long-term orbital evolution of planets, including Earth, and, by extension,...
A team co-led by Southwest Research Institute found evidence for hydrothermal or metamorphic activity within the icy dwarf planets Eris...
A study led by Western astrobiologist Catherine Neish shows the subsurface ocean of Titan—the largest moon of Saturn—is most likely...
In our most basic understanding of our solar system, planets are drawn into the orbit of our massive star, the...
Using data from the retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)—a joint project of NASA and the German Space Agency...
The unique two thin rings around the Centaur Chariklo could be shaped by an even smaller satellite. Chariklo is a...
