A new Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) study based on data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has uncovered insights into ...

In the latest research, telescope observations of 3I/ATLAS examine its chemical structure and suggest that it took shape in a ...

Snapchat Planets turns your friendship ranking into a tiny social solar system, where being Mercury is elite and Neptune ...

As Nasa's two Voyager ships reach the edge of the solar system, Dallas Campbell and Christopher Riley reflect on their incredible 35-year journey ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

Scientists are grappling with a cosmic mystery: why does the Universe behave differently on massive scales compared to our own solar system? While distant galaxies reveal clear signs of something ...

Earth may survive the fiery death of the sun after all, new models suggest When the sun dies, it will become hundreds of times its current size and engulf the innermost planets. Earth may escape this ...

The standard story of the origin of our solar system has gone like this: 4.6 billion years ago, a giant cloud of dust hung frozen in space. Then the explosion of a nearby star caused part of that dust ...

An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers who discovered it using telescopes from NASA and the European Space Agency, ...

A heated dispute over a proposed solar farm in Unity might be headed back to the local zoning board. Westmoreland County Common Pleas Judge Harry Smail Jr. on Thursday suggested the option of ...

How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the key tests of our cosmological understanding. A research team led by ...

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, has traveled farther than any spacecraft in human history. After more than four decades of silent endurance through space, it now sails beyond the orbit of the outer ...