A large lunar crater featured in the iconic 'Earthrise' photo has just helped the European JUICE spacecraft hone its ...

Astronomers are tracking a newly spotted comet, named 3I/ATLAS, hailing from parts unknown. It is only the third time such an ...

Our solar system orbits the Milky Way galaxy once every 200 million years, driven by a supermassive black hole at its center.

I t is often remarked upon that the distribution of rings and moons around the giant planets of the Solar System – Jupiter, ...

The solar system consists of eight planets, several dwarf planets, hundreds of moons, and billions of asteroids, comets and ...

Several factors affect the productive lifespan of a residential solar panel. In the first part of a series, we look at the ...

The orbit of Ammonite (red line) and the orbits of the other three sednoids (white lines). Ammonite was discovered close to its perihelion, at a distance of 71 astronomical units (71 times the average ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...

Dwarf planets Haumea and Makemake are the latest additions to the Maine Solar System Model, billed as the largest solar ...

New discoveries of objects in the Kuiper Belt have also presented challenges for the Planet Nine theory. The latest is known ...

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...