Uranus, the mysterious ice giant, has 27 known moons, each named after literary characters from Shakespeare and Alexander ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, flew into view of the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in ...

The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun’s huge gravitational field keeps many other objects – planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets – in orbit around it.

Turns out, it's as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing ...

In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls ... Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space ...

8 planets orbit the Sun. The closest are the four rocky planets, the remaining gas planets inhabit deeper space. The solar system is also home to many other cosmic bodies including asteroids ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and smaller than our sun. Located about 250 light-years from Earth in the Draco ...

Other objects with bizarre orbits are 2008 KV42 and 2011 KT19 which move almost perpendicular to Neptune's orbit. “The best match for today’s outer solar system is a star slightly lighter than ...

The seven planets in the system closely orbit their star, so that if TRAPPIST-1 were in place of our sun in the solar system, the planets surrounding it would all be within the orbit of Mercury ...

PUNCH isn't the only spacecraft studying the solar corona and the transition into the solar wind. NASA's Parker Solar Probe regularly flies closer to the sun than any other spacecraft has gone before; ...