The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and ...

The solar system holds extraordinary wonders, from Voyager 1’s historic journey into interstellar space after traveling ...

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

The astronomers are ready to probe Neptune-sized exoplanets through ATREIDES, a new project designed to unravel how planetary ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, expects its spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid in July 2031. The ...

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

Why do all planets in our solar system orbit the Sun the same way? This documentary unravels the cosmic forces, from the solar system’s violent birth to the hidden laws of physics, that keep the ...

A recent announcement from astronomers has everyone buzzing! A "visitor" has entered the solar system, and can you guess what ...

While Mars today only has a wispy remnant of an atmosphere, it may once have had one hundreds of times thicker with a ...

Today, let's talk about an incredibly mysterious celestial body in the solar system — Sedna. Did you know that it takes Sedna about 11,000 years to complete one orbit around the Sun? It leisurely ...