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 ...

Lovejoy likely hails from the Oort cloud, a distant shell of icy objects thought to surround the solar system. It’s one of the roughly 4,000 known comets among the billions estimated to exist in ...

Astronomers anticipate a significant leap in our understanding of the solar system later this year, thanks to a powerful new observatory in Chile. Millions of previously unseen asteroids, comets, and ...

The station utilises a 45 kWp solar system connected to a 100 kWh Battery Energy Storage System composed of repurposed batteries. The country's first solar-powered electric vehicle (EV) charging ...

Thanks in part to the world's largest digital camera, a new observatory should soon discover several million previously unknown objects in the solar system, including the majority of asteroids ...

A new observatory is set to detect millions of never-before-seen solar system objects, a global group of astronomers led by Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) has said. The brand new facility at ...

The Parker Solar Probe was developed as part of NASA's Living With a Star program to explore aspects of the Sun-Earth system that directly affect life and society. The Living With a Star program ...

It provides access to key solar system data and can predict the positions of all its objects with extreme accuracy. Discover the latest in science, tech, and space with over 100,000 subscribers ...

Do you think you know everything about space and beyond? Can you name all the planets in our solar system, and the name of the closest galaxy to the Milky Way? We have put together a quiz all ...

Its size is estimated to be a bit smaller than Ceres, which is the smallest of the solar system's five recognized dwarf planets and has a diameter of about 950km. Pluto, the largest of those dwarf ...

“Given that solar systems and solar tax credits are complex subjects—and salespeople make oral representations about the contract and system details—this provision creates a situation ripe ...

But this assumes that nothing affects the Solar System in the meantime, and that is not a certainty. As we travel around the galaxy, we might encounter stars, and even from a distance, they can ...