Zooming through the outer reaches of the solar system, A NASA spacecraft just clocked a distance 60 times farther from the ...

As 2023 comes to an end, let us take a look at the jaw-dropping pictures of our solar system that NASA has shared throughout ...

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

The Stardust team teased the specks from the gel, stuck them in their electron microscopes, and stared back at the birth of our solar system. They were stunned by what they saw. Scientists have ...

The closest pictures revealed a phenomenon that was ... before being modified and mixed in their long journey from our solar system’s star. The craft was launched on 9 February 2020 aboard ...

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

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

Artwork: Six worlds around a star like our Sun are ideal to study how planets formed and whether they are home to life Researchers have located "the perfect solar system", forged without the ...

Scientists say microscopic black holes could explain the elusive "dark matter" that makes up a quarter of all matter in the ...

Staring at the sun—a close (but safe) look at our home star Staring at the sun ... Free learning activities and videos about the solar system Free learning activities and videos about the ...

On this scale a circle two and a half miles in diameter would include all the members of our solar system; but on this scale the nearest fixed stars would be nearly as distant as is our moon.

Discover how a giant interstellar cloud known as the solar nebula gave birth to our solar system and everything in it. The solar system as we know it began life as a vast, swirling cloud of gas and ...