The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are ...

Searching for life on other planets requires more than just measuring their distances from their stars. A future NASA ...

Is the race to build data centres in space a planet-saver or pie in the sky? - Chris Stokel-Walker asks if off-planet data ...

American space agency NASA readies the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope for integration, launch could come as soon as next ...

Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...

Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and ...

"Asteroseismology with Roman is possible because we don't need to ask the telescope to do anything it wasn't already planning to do." ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, an enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects ...

Could you survive a day on every planet in our solar system? Experience the extreme conditions across the planets in a single ...