NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first family portrait of the solar system! Voyager 1 was on its way toward interstellar space after completing its grand tour of the solar system at the time. Carl ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

Join us as we delve into NASA's quest to find extraterrestrial life in the outer solar system. Discover the potential habitability of icy moons like Europa and Enceladus, which may harbor ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has picked SpaceX to launch Pandora, a 716-pound (325-kilogram) ...

“NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook on what we understand about the beginnings of our solar system,” Nicky Fox, associate administrator of the Science Mission ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines — The city government here has installed a solar-powered irrigation system (SPIS) in Pañalum, Paquibato District to boost agricultural production. The SPIS, the first in ...