Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' research focused on two of the smaller ones, Amalthea and Thebe. Both are inside ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is exploring a new Mars region called Krokodillen, which is thought to harbor some of the oldest and most intriguing rocks on the Red Planet.

Using a newly developed adaptive optics system called Cona, scientists peered through Earth's turbulent air to reveal the sun ...

As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...

Researchers from Nagoya City University, Tohoku University, and other institutions have used numerical simulations to ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Webb Telescope Captures Its ...

The 585 B.C. Eclipse of Peace turned fear into ceasefire, as a solar eclipse halted war and reshaped ancient views of the ...

Our solar system’s origin story spans billions of years and involves clouds of gas, cosmic collisions, and planetary ...

A paper outlines key considerations for a growing floating solar ... Dust in the System -- How Saharan Storms Threaten Europe's Solar Power Future May 2, 2025 — New research reveals how Saharan ...

While this isn’t difficult, it does add cost and complexity, plus mechanical systems usually need more maintenance. According to [Xavier Derdenback], now that solar panels are cheaper than ever ...