In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".

The processes that followed gave rise to the solar system, complete with eight planets, 181 moons ... supernova - an exploding star - sending shock waves rippling through space. Gravity then caused ...

In April, the astronomer said that he had discovered a large asteroid with a diameter of about 200 meters, potentially dangerous for the Earth ...

The only spacecraft to ever fly by Uranus, Nasa's Voyager 2, passed the seventh planet in the Solar System in 1986 - and the ...

Astronomers are investigating the possibility of a hidden ninth planet beyond Neptune, which could explain unusual orbital patterns in the Kuiper Belt.

The smooth, planet-less disk of the Vega star system challenges planetary formation theories, suggesting alternative cosmic ...

MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. They looked for clues of an ancient magnetic field.

emphasizing that it can sometimes be easier to spot planets hundreds of light-years away than those within our Solar System. NanoAvionics satellite gets into space collision, then captures selfie ...

Over the last decade, NASA's Kepler space telescope surpassed expectations: it alone has detected several thousand planets, revealing the architecture of exoplanetary systems. Compared to our Solar ...

and exploration of habitable planets and extraterrestrial life. The mid- and long-term programme, guiding space science from 2024 to 2050, includes priority areas like solar system origins ...

Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...