Our solar system has amazing moons. Our own moon is pretty great, but no offense to our planet, the outer solar system is where all the action is. Our two gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn ...

From looking at the grainy first picture it beamed back to Earth, the barren landscape seems eerily empty and quiet. But that isn’t the case. NASA has previously captured the unearthly sounds of the ...

A real-life Death Star has been spotted destroying a solar system far, far away from Earth. But Darth Vader is not at the helm of this cosmic killer, which is actually a white dwarf. Astronomers ...

A new simulator on the NASA website shows a real-time visualization of where the Curiosity is in relation to the other planets of our solar system. Above, a screenshot from earlier today showing ...

Scientists have released the first ever picture ... the first real look at such a similar planetary system, the image and observations could help us understand how our solar system's planets ...

Bohn said the observations can help scientists better understand the evolution of our own solar system. Taking direct images, he said, provides the best chance to detect life outside our solar ...

If you were to look at a giant picture of space, zoom in on the Milky Way galaxy, and then zoom in again on one of its outer spiral arms, you’d find the solar system. Astronomers believe it ...

A tiny satellite circling Earth is providing an unexpectedly complicated picture of the solar system's heliosphere, the invisible bubble that extends far beyond the planetary orbits to where the ...

Launched on March 11, its goal is to study the solar wind — the stream of charged particles emanating from the sun and the cause of space weather. It will do so by taking pictures of the ... h), ...

If you’ve ever seen an illustration of the solar system, the odds are good that ... which is 864,938 miles across in real life, is represented in the video as a four-and-a-half-foot-wide weather ...

The slow death will kill off life on Earth ... plus Neptune’s moon Triton — may be the most valuable real estate in the solar system. Today, these worlds hold abundant water ice and complex ...