MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. They looked for clues of an ancient magnetic field.

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

Today, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will complete its seventh swing past Venus — the spacecraft's final maneuver around the ...

A 12-year-old hunched over the table, doodling with highlighters on scrap paper as his public defender made the case that Minnesota’s mental health treatment system has failed him. The boy ...

“This increase in activity provides an exciting opportunity to learn about our closest star − but also causes real effects at Earth and throughout our solar system.” This peak of activity is ...

Illustration by NASA/NASA via Getty Images) Scientists have just completed an extensive search for signs of alien technology in the TRAPPIST-1 star system, the so-called “solar system 2.0 ...

“This increase in activity provides an exciting opportunity to learn about our closest star — but also causes real effects at Earth and throughout our solar system.” The solar cycle is the natural ...

But first, we need you to sign in to PBS using one of the services below. Around our solar system, violent eruptions are shaping distant worlds. Discover the explosive forces that helped create ...

But one series I will definitely be tuning in to is the BBC’s Solar System, presented by Brian Cox (pictured above). I didn’t watch Cox’s first series on this topic, made 15 years ago ...