How do we power missions in the outer reaches of our solar system and beyond? The solution, developed in the '60s, can last ...

New connections discovered between the Sun's photosphere and CI chondrites meteorites, providing clues about the origin of materials.

A distant exoplanet discovered, named Enaiposha, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a "super-Venus" ...

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 heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

The first time you may have heard the term ‘dwarf planet’ was when Pluto got demoted to one in 2006 (RIP). However, we actually have six in our Solar System. Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris ...

Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It's the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth.

The seven other planets in our solar system will line up in the night sky on Friday evening for a rare alignment called a "planetary parade" that will not happen again until 2040. On March 1 ...

But the average solar panel system of 3.5kWp will cost around £7,000 to install, according to estimates from the Energy Saving Trust. The exact cost will vary, depending on the size of your home and ...

How big would our Solar System be if the Sun was an eleven-inch football/soccer ball? Alex and Jonathan set out to find the answer to this question, and visit each of the planets and planetoids along ...

This stunning photo shows every single planet in the solar system at the same time during a rare alignment that won’t happen again until 2040. Taken from a field in Somerset, the groundbreaking ...