Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Cheaper solar power and battery storage are expanding the technologies' role in stabilising energy systems and thus offering ...

The solar system is portrayed as a dynamic, gossip-fueled family, with each planet offering snide comments about one another, ...

When deciding if it's worth installing solar panels, you may want to know when they will start saving you money.

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from the new galaxy.

Humanity’s greatest journey might not be to Mars, but to an entirely new solar system. Proxima Centauri b, an exoplanet in ...

For this, astronomers used two facilities: the Submillimeter Array (SMA), CfA's eight-dish collection of radio telescopes in ...

NASA said the system is thought to be moving at least 1.2 million miler per hour, nearly twice as fast as our solar system.

Humanity is on the verge of a new frontier—colonizing the solar system. But what’s actually stopping us? From the challenges ...