A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

Last week, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University's Binar Space Program burned up in Earth's atmosphere.

The researchers revealed that Uranus’s protective magnetic field was distorted, and seemed wonky and weak, being squashed and ...

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

Solar system formation models using measurements of organics from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and the most widely adopted solar composition ratios did not produce the dense, rocky Pluto-Charon ...

Pluto. Due to its large mass, it would have a great internal energy that could sustain, for example, subsurface oceans. Its orbit would be very distant, much beyond Neptune, and much more inclined ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

Our ability to detect planets outside our Solar System is becoming more refined. Thus, astrophysicists can now detect exoplanets still nestled within the dust cloud that witnessed their birth, right ...

Those who know me understand my lifelong passion for looking to the stars and the myriad of celestial wonders hidden within the nighttime skies. A lot of that began when I was just eight years old.

Mickey must complete each planet in a specific order based on XL30's instructions ... XL30 says that Neptune is considered the ninth planet of the solar system until 1999, when Pluto will be the ninth ...

you should consider whether you're a deep-sky or Solar System imager. The aperture (or objective lens) of the telescope will be your guide on whether it's capable of capturing 'faint fuzzies' or just ...

India has handed over rooftop solar systems to multiple religious locations in Sri Lanka in continuation of its energy partnership with the island nation, the Indian High Commission here said. The ...