For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares—intense bursts of light on the sun that can ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

Create your own masterpiece of the solar system. You could paint it, use different sized objects or draw it. Don't forget to label it and add any facts that you know!

The Red Planet will be at its closest point to Earth, also known as perigee, on Jan. 12 and will be exactly opposite the sun ...

New observational data from the James Webb Space Telescope and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike ...

These solar system objects are like icy asteroids and ... the interpretation of color diversity by providing compositional information. New studies led by researchers at the University of Central ...

The discovery doubles the known number of these mysterious celestial objects across our solar system that resemble asteroids but zip through space like comets, albeit without the “tail” comets ...

Planet X, also called Planet Nine, is a hypothetical planetary body seven times the mass of Earth lurking behind Pluto. If ...

A massive interstellar object passing through our solar system during its formative years likely altered the orbits of planets into trajectories observed today, a new study says. Interactions with ...

19, 2024 — Scientists have unveiled groundbreaking research on the origins of lunar water, offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar ...

More information: Noemí Pinilla-Alonso et al, A JWST/DiSCo-TNOs portrait of the primordial Solar System through its trans-Neptunian objects, Nature Astronomy (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-024-02433 ...