Currently, our solar system recognizes 8 planets, with Pluto being demoted to a dwarf planet floating in the Kuiper Belt in 2006. Planet Nine's gravitational pull may explain what keeps the icy ...

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these ...

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.

The Voyager 1 probe has been playing the real-life version of this. Launched on September 5th, 1977, the spacecraft reached Neptune, the outer sentinel of the Solar System, over a decade later.

Solar System Planets. ... hurtling toward Earth, triggering a rare G4-level geomagnetic storm alert. Captured in real-time by U.S. Naval ... Life-Bearing Water Arrived on Earth Later Rather ...

The solar system’s denouement is still a subject of debate among scientists. Exactly how far the dying Sun will expand, and how conditions will change, aren’t yet clear. But a few things seem ...

The temperatures on its surface reach more than a scorching 900 degrees Fahrenheit, making it home to the hottest surface temperatures in the solar system. Its toxic atmosphere is almost a hundred ...

A giant planet 124 light years from Earth has yielded the strongest evidence yet that extraterrestrial life may be thriving beyond our solar system, astronomers claim.