Astro Brief is a podcast collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

When you think of outer space, you're likely picturing stars, planets and moons. But much of space is filled with clouds of gas, plasma and stardust—known as interstellar clouds.

BEIJING -- Using lunar samples collected by the Chang'e 6 mission, Chinese scientists have discovered a significant shift in ...

Welcome to SolarBalls, where you can enjoy entertaining space animations that educate you about the solar system and the ...

Citizen scientists working with NASA have helped identify more than 3,000 brown dwarfs—dim, elusive objects that sit between ...

If confirmed, the rock would become just the second world past Neptune in our solar system to host an atmosphere.

Scientists suggest that a fifth, hidden force linked to dark energy may exist in the solar system but has not yet been detected.

The Sun’s outer layer is extremely hot, but not uniform. Amid the million-degree corona, there are cooler, denser “clouds” of plasma called prominences, at about 10,000°C. They look like gentle, ...

Some 4.6 billion years ago, when the solar system was born from a vast cloud that collapsed to form the sun and a surrounding disk of whirling gas, no planets yet orbited our star. Back then, besides ...

SPRING, Texas — A meteorite that exploded over the Houston area last month, sending fragments crashing into at least one local home, is now being examined by scientists at Rice University who say the ...

Researchers from China have proposed a transformative approach to exploring Venus by introducing an integrated system designed to filter, enrich, and analyze atmospheric gases with unprecedented ...