"We're trying to encounter an astronomical object that streaks through our solar system just once and we don’t want to miss ...
A NASA spacecraft far from Earth has made an unexpected discovery, after turning its instruments towards a dark patch of sky ...
Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...
Uranus' accidental discovery 240 years ago greatly enhanced our understanding of the solar system, doubling the ... which ...
And tantalizingly, what they found suggests that our solar system may already be flooded ... a far more significant presence than the background level of gas and dust diffused throughout the ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...
The Oort Cloud is the name given to a theorized group of potentially trillions of icy objects on the edge of our solar system. But while it has been accepted as a theory for over 70 years ...