KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...
The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...
The simulation of the Solar System that came the closest to the observation was the presence of a small planet, between the ...
S cientists have confirmed the existence of over 6,100 planets beyond the Solar System in the Milky Way. Something that has ...
When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...
We’d certainly know about it if an asteroid hit Mars or the moon, but just how much Earth would be affected depends on a number of factors ...
For almost a decade, astronomers have been searching for a ninth planet in the solar system. Recently, new evidence of ...
Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...
A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?
The European Space Agency (ESA) is planning the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (RAMSES) mission to the Apophis asteroid.
A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth ...
What makes 3I/ATLAS especially intriguing is that the comet might be three billion years older than our entire Solar System.