New Horizons—the famous NASA spacecraft that flew by Pluto in 2015—is now making new discoveries beyond the Kuiper Belt. With ...

It takes about 230 million years for for it, and us, to complete one full orbit. And the Milk Way is just one galaxy in the Universe. Solar System – A group of objects orbiting around a star.

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some ...

If you want to pinpoint your place in the universe, start with your cosmic address. You live on Earth->Solar System->Milky ...

Every planet in our solar system is essentially round. But out in the universe, are there any planets that aren't spherical? Technically, planets are round, by definition; they need to have enough ...

MIT engineers have developed a groundbreaking solar-powered desalination system that operates in sync with the sun's energy ...

Our Solar System is full of mysteries, but if the inner planets are a puzzle ... For more on where Earth and our Solar System fit into the deep history of the cosmos, check out the other posts in this ...

A residential solar system from one of our top providers costs between $20,000 and $36,000. Eighty-five percent of respondents in our June 2024 survey of 1,000 homeowners with solar systems said ...

An international research team led by Los Alamos National Laboratory studied asteroid Bennu's tracking data to investigate ...

Not everyone will be able to see the phenomenon, known as an annular eclipse, on Wednesday, though a partial solar eclipse ...

Charon, discovered in 1978, has the distinction of being the solar system's largest moon relative in size to the planet it ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed magnificent things about the Universe. Using its sophisticated infrared optics, it has peered deeper into space (and farther back in time) than any ...