If you were to look at a giant picture of space, zoom in on the Milky Way galaxy, and then zoom in again on one of its outer spiral arms, you’d find the solar system. Astronomers believe it ...

European Space Agency (ESA), Max Planck Institute for Solar System Clearly, small bodies aren’t bit players in the epic saga of Earth’s evolution—they’re central characters. But we can’t ...

The California Supreme Court began hearing arguments today on whether the state’s utilities commission broke the law when it cut subsidies to new rooftop solar customers in 2022. At the same ...

This is an image of Ceres, the nearest dwarf planet to Earth in the solar system. A new dwarf planet extremely far from the sun may have just been discovered. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA ...

So many unexplored secrets still lie at the outskirts of our solar system, where a potential candidate for a new dwarf planet lies. Although space beyond Neptune was thought to be mostly devoid of ...

Jupiter is not only the largest in the solar system, but is so humongous that it's more than twice as massive as the other planets combined. The gas giant's influential place in shaping our solar ...

'I think it is quite clear that space weather was not the cause of the dramatic power outage in Spain recently' On May 20, just weeks after power outages swept across the Iberian Peninsula, mobile ...

TNOs are bodies in the solar system that orbit the Sun beyond Neptune, which is 30 times more distant from the Sun than the Earth. A preprint describing the discovery is hosted on the preprint ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A ...

Oh god, you're all going to be so freaking weird about this. Universal is doing a series of character shorts for How to Train Your Dragon, where each actor introduces themselves and their ...