From breathtaking views of asteroids to stunning planetary snapshots, Hubble’s exploration of our solar system has been ...

There are eight official planets (sorry, Pluto) in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and ...

The Sun, the planets, and all else that constitutes the solar system are hurtling toward the star Lambda Herculis, some 370 ...

19, 2024 — Scientists have unveiled groundbreaking research on the origins of lunar water, offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar ...

UCF researchers utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover unique characteristics of (2060) Chiron, a distant ...

Six planets will all be visible at once in the night sky this month, lined up across the sky—but one is set to disappear from view.

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back some incredibly detailed images of Mercury’s north pole. The snapshots were ...

Scientists have made a shocking discovery about a rare object in our solar system likened to an asteroid-comet hybrid.

Space can surprise even those who spend their lives studying it. People often think of our solar system as just a few planets and a bunch of empty space. Yet new observations suggest we have been ...

The discovery doubles the known number of these mysterious celestial objects across our solar system that resemble asteroids but zip through space like comets, albeit without the “tail” comets ...

It’s a very different environment from the one inside our heliosphere—quieter but hardly quiescent. “It’s a relic of the environment the solar system was born out of,” Rankin says of the ...