The solar system is our cosmic neighborhood, made up of the sun and everything that orbits it — planets, moons, asteroids ... planets we know today. This model of solar system formation is ...

Analyzing gravity data collected by spacecraft orbiting other worlds reveals groundbreaking insights about planetary ...

ESS1.B: Earth and the Solar System (6-8) The solar system consists of the sun and a collection of objects, including planets, their moons, and asteroids that are held in orbit around the sun by its ...

NASA’s latest gravitational data model of the Moon generated a litany of discoveries from ancient volcanoes to navigational ...

Billions of years ago, in the frozen edges of the solar system, a violent impact shaped one of space’s oddest pairs. Instead ...

NASA scientists have sought to understand planet Jupiter, the gas giant whose mass is more than the rest of the planets in ...