By fitting its sunshield and solar panels, engineers have completed the construction of Plato, the European Space Agency's ...

The New Horizons station is the first man-made object to reach Pluto. Till now, an incredibly distant and barely seen by telescopes ice dwarf remained an almost complete mystery to scientists. Let's ...

Many imagine human colonies on the Moon, Mars, or even on one of Jupiter's moons. But what if we look even further, beyond the gas giants and the already known frontiers? Today, in the world of space, ...

Anyone who studies planetary formation would relish the opportunity to get a close-up look at an interstellar object. Sending ...

Mercury will square Pluto retrograde on Oct. 7, intensifying group dynamics and social exchanges that lack integrity.

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

Normal gases, like the air you breathe on Earth, are made up of atoms bouncing around. Atoms consist of a positively charged bundle of particles called the nucleus and negatively charged particles ...

Pluto haze-driven climate discovered by JWST rewrites planetary science, echoes early Earth’s skies, and reshapes views of ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

Amir Siraj and team propose Planet Y, a possible unseen planet influencing Kuiper Belt object orbits. Vera C. Rubin ...