This milestone promises to enhance our understanding ... a violent solar eruption may hit Earth. Scientists say ... July 11, 2024 — The International Astronomical Union defines a planet as ...

How Alpha Centauri Might Send Objects Our Way “We know from our own solar system that giant planets bring a little bit of chaos to space. They can perturb orbits and give a little bit of extra boost ...

As we attempt to become a multi-planet species recent research has mapped a “interstellar tunnel” from our solar system pointing toward the constellation Centaurus. That is direction in which ...

one which can offer superb views of the other bodies in the solar system. But which one to choose? We've got you covered with our guide to the best telescopes for seeing planets. There are several ...

Mike Brown is convinced that beyond Neptune, at the far reaches of our solar system, there's an unseen giant planet. "This is the 5th largest planet in our solar system, lurking out there ...

“The sun is the closest thing we have in our solar system to an unlimited source of energy,” Jaffe said. “The more we can take advantage of that, the better.” Unlike terrestrial solar ...

Miranda, the deformed and most undersized of Uranus' large moons, features a patchwork of ridges, valleys, and great cliffs. Scientists consider its mixed-up surface to be the product of intense ...

NASA explained this phenomenon of the four planets: "The closest to the star, HR 8799 e, orbits 2.4 billion kilometers from its star, which in our solar system would be located between the orbits ...

"The highlight of our study is that we can extract the glass we need for our solar cells directly from the lunar regolith without any processing," Lang told his university. "The process is also ...

This striking satellite footage shows the moon's shadow racing across North America at more than 1,500 mph (2,400 km/h) during 2024's historic total solar ... this part of our planet.

However, the more it has been observed, the more theories have increased that it has similarities with another planet in our solar system, Venus. The closest thing between the two is the layer of ...

The Sweden Solar System is the largest scale model of the Solar System in existence, and it spans the entire Swedish territory. It was created by astronomers Nils Brenning and Gösta Gahm to help ...