If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

Why haven’t humans colonized other planets yet?  While we dream of expanding across the solar system, there are hidden and ...

The processes that followed gave rise to the solar system, complete with eight planets, 181 moons ... supernova - an exploding star - sending shock waves rippling through space. Gravity then caused ...

Astronomers are investigating the possibility of a hidden ninth planet beyond Neptune, which could explain unusual orbital patterns in the Kuiper Belt.

The smooth, planet-less disk of the Vega star system challenges planetary formation theories, suggesting alternative cosmic ...

The only spacecraft to ever fly by Uranus, Nasa's Voyager 2, passed the seventh planet in the Solar System in 1986 - and the ...

MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. They looked for clues of an ancient magnetic field.

and exploration of habitable planets and extraterrestrial life. The mid- and long-term programme, guiding space science from 2024 to 2050, includes priority areas like solar system origins ...

A spacecraft has blasted into space and will travel 1.8 billion ... kilometres), finally arriving at the biggest planet in the solar system in April 2030. What it finds could change what ...

Over the last decade, NASA's Kepler space telescope surpassed expectations: it alone has detected several thousand planets, revealing the architecture of exoplanetary systems. Compared to our Solar ...

Signs of mysterious rainbow-like patterns have been detected on a planet ... solar system – it requires very peculiar conditions," Olivier Demangeon, from the Institute of Astrophysics and Space ...