The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt. NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has ...

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks ...

Starting at 12:30 p.m. ET (1730 GMT) on Saturday (Jan. 25), astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project ...

Six of our cosmic neighbors are expected to line up across the night sky tonight, in what has been dubbed a "planetary parade ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

Researchers have created an improved traffic light system for predicting geomagnetic storms. They are now testing how well ...

CHILD: So how old is our solar system? MADDIE: That’s a great question! Let’s ask an expert. DR BECKY: Hi, I’m Dr Becky and I am a space expert. Now, the solar system and all the planets in ...

Despite common assumptions, the disk of our Solar System is warped ... object was and where it went are questions still hanging in space. Was this a rogue planet that escaped into the void ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting asteroids from the outer asteroid belt may have brought it with them. In the jo ...

Now in one sense outside of the solar system, their work to study distant planets was over. But a whole new mission was about to begin. It is now flying out into space at almost 40,000 miles per ...

After decades of exploring the outer solar system before charting the unknown frontier of interstellar space, the two spacecraft are showing signs of age. Early in their journey, the pair swooped ...

Researchers at the University of Twente in the Netherlands have investigated how free-space luminescent ... nearby solar modules. The experimental setup consisted of a rooftop PV system and ...