T he sun is the star at the center of our solar system. It's the largest, brightest and most massive object in the solar ...

With 3.2 billion pixels and a decade-long search, the Rubin Observatory will reveal what’s been hiding in plain sight.

NASA’s IMAP spacecraft is being prepped for a 2025 launch to study the solar system’s outer boundary and solar wind from its ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

A computer simulation predicts that the Rubin Observatory will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the ...

Every single organism on Earth, no matter the biome, the kingdom, the domain, whether it's an extremophile in a hot spring or ...

A newly detected planet beyond Pluto is not just expanding our understanding of the Solar System, it might be quietly rewriting it. Astronomers from the University of Taiwan recen ...

For centuries, astronomers have sought to understand the formation and evolution of the solar system and the dynamics that ...

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

But this assumes that nothing affects the Solar System in the meantime, and that is not a certainty. As we travel around the ...

The plains house the aptly named Very Large Array (VLA)—a radio telescope made of 27 different antennas, each of which looks ...