Fantasizing about interplanetary exploration is a fun mental exercise, but the harsh realities of life (or lack thereof) in ...

Our solar system is on the move, traveling at 828,000 km/h through a galactic structure most people don't know exists. This ...

To date, the Voyager 2 probe has provided the only direct measurements of the radiation environment at Uranus. This led to ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though ...

When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth.

Before the ribbon-cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by WHS Astronomy ...

BRITS are clueless about our solar system – with four in 10 unable to identify the biggest planet and a quarter uncertain ...

Astronomers have created a groundbreaking discovery of images showing debris disks in an extensive range of exoplanetary ...

Apollo samples provide evidence: Researchers analyzed Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions and, for the first time, ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of Earth’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later formed the moon.