All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

A team of school students and teachers has discovered 11 small astronomical objects in our solar system, including one provisionally recognized by a NASA-backed program as a main belt asteroid (MBA).

Traveling from one star to another is currently impossible to achieve within a human lifetime. But some projects are ...

Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ... Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of ...

Four small suitcase-sized spacecraft, designed and built by Southwest Research Institute, have made a final Earth-side pit ...

In the distant space out beyond the orbit of Jupiter lurks a strange object. Its name is Chiron, a type of outer Solar System body known as a centaur. But even among its fellow centaurs, Chiron is ...