Astronomers have found three new moons orbiting our Solar System's ice giants. One is orbiting Uranus, and two are orbiting…
As stars in the Milky Way move through space, some of them have an unexpected effect on the Solar System.…
Can we secure our place in the Solar System? Not in any absolute sense because nature can be very unpredictable.…
Astronomers have found evidence of geothermal activity across the Solar System, from planets like Mars, icy moons like Europa and…
A recently submitted study to The Astronomical Journal continues to search for the elusive Planet Nine (also called Planet X),…
We're light-years away from the closest stars, but in the billions of years of history in the Milky Way, our…
It's satisfying to sit back and take stock of all the places in the Solar System that we've explored. The…
Before planets form around a young star, the protosolar disk is populated with innumerable planetesimals. Over time, these planetesimals combine…
Researchers using the ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) have found three iron rings around a young star about 500…
For more than 46 years, the Voyager 1 probe has been traveling through space. On August 25th, 2012, it became…