An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...

The new exoplanet, Enaiposha, also known as GJ 1214 b has never been seen before and is now officially being called a "Super-Venus." ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

NASA has found something on Uranus and Neptune. The ice giants of the solar system have long been enigmas for science.

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

Using a small telescope one can also discern the planet’s oblateness, or flattening at the poles. Continued study of Saturn’s ring system can yield new understandings of orbital dynamics, applicable ...

A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in the ... We checked observatories in California, Texas, Ohio and New York in the US, along with Calgary in Canada ...

In a study published in AGU Advances, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) used data ...