Astronomers have long been intrigued by the makeup of the asteroid belt’s largest body. When it was first spotted in 1801, ...

A solar flare is a burst of radiation on the sun, according to NASA. They are the most powerful explosions in the solar system, with the biggest ones having as much energy as a billion hydrogen bombs.

At long last, particles of water–ice have been discovered in the frozen Kuiper Belt of another star. The discovery, made by ...

However, you're more likely to read and hear about meteors, meteoroids, meteorites, comets, and asteroids online and in the ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million years. Uranus and Neptune were next, within 10 million years. The inner ...