Clyde Tombaugh didn't set out to discover Pluto when he sent his sketches of the night sky to Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff ...

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a host of other puzzles connected to the solar system's deep past ...

Ryugu, a 900-meter diameter asteroid in the Apollo belt, has recently proven useful in our search for signs of life's precursors elsewhere in our solar system. A team of researchers at Kyoto ...

Ryugu, a 900-meter diameter asteroid in the Apollo belt, has recently proven useful in our search for signs of life's precursors elsewhere in our Solar System. A team of researchers has found ...

After signing Alex Bregman, the Boston Red Sox's lineup ... a loaded minor league system, with three of the top 11 MLB prospects. While it’s difficult to choose two of the three, here are ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of ... dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt. "Both Enceladus and ...

SPACE (KXAN) — A star flying through the night sky may be the fastest-moving solar ... The system was observed using microlensing. This phenomenon occurs when the mass of an object in space ...

Around one to two billion years ago, this mega-asteroid broke apart in the Asteroid Belt, producing a chunk of rock that us ape-like inhabitants on the Solar System’s third planet would one day ...

The second possibility had the researchers thinking there could be a chance that the mystery object will someday return to the inner Solar System. More simulations showed that there is a slight ...

Countless celestial ... Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the Sun, primarily found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. These remnants from the early solar system vary in size ...

🌍🛸 This video explores the conditions that make life possible on Earth and whether similar environments exist elsewhere in the inner solar system. From the Goldilocks zone to protective ...

Additionally, passing through ... solar system’s formation and evolution. Astronomers have observed a spectacular cosmic event where a massive black hole is disrupting two celestial objects ...