Students in Canada have developed “backpacks” that can attach to different types of robots, enabling them to work ...

Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system, according to NASA. Jupiter’s radius is over 11 times the equatorial radius ...

New Horizons—the famous NASA spacecraft that flew by Pluto in 2015—is now making new discoveries beyond the Kuiper Belt. With ...

Premieres Wednesdays, Oct. 2 - 30, 2024 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. New discoveries are proving it – our solar system is ...

"If there are lots of black holes out there, some of them must surely pass through our backyard every now and then." ...

Tiny, ancient black holes could whizz through our Solar System as often as once a decade, according to a new study. We could ...

Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, may hold a substantial amount of water ice beneath its surface, like an ...

A star's close flyby billions of years ago possibly influenced the solar system's architecture, leading to unusual orbits of ...

Now, however, Pluto and that part of the solar system has moved away from the backdrop of the Milky Way into a sparser region of the night sky. With its Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), Subaru has discovered ...

We now know that black holes occur frequently throughout the universe. One Sagittarius A* sits at the center of our galaxy, ...

Astronomers have observed three types of black holes in the universe. Stellar-mass black holes formed from the collapse of a ...

“Barnard b is one of the lowest-mass exoplanets known and one of the few known with a mass less than that of Earth,” said ...