The James Webb Space Telescope has given astronomers groundbreaking insight into a new type of planet described as unlike ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Genesis data is now producing high impact science in cosmochemistry, solar physics, coronal mass ejections, and space ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even ...

NASA's IMAP mission will delve into the mysteries of the heliosphere, mapping its boundaries and studying solar wind ...

offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system. The ... Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists recently led a team that found, for the first ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A planet-size object that possibly once visited the solar system may have permanently ...

Some 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has been mapping out the Milky ...