Solar System

This is the Surface of a Giant Star, 350 Times Larger Than the Sun

Using the ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer, an international team of astronomers has created the first detailed images of another…

7 years ago

Researchers Develop a New Low Cost/Low Weight Method of Searching for Life on Mars

Researchers at McGill University are developing what they call the Life Detection Platform, a compact, robotic, energy-efficient system for detecting…

7 years ago

Yes Please! NASA is Considering a Helicopter Mission to Titan

NASA has chosen the Dragonfly mission concept as a finalist in its New Frontiers program. The double-quadcopter drone is designed…

7 years ago

You Can Now Use Google Maps to Explore the Solar System

Thanks to the over 500,000 pictures taken by the Cassini mission, Google Maps has created a mapping tool that allows…

7 years ago

More Evidence Presented in Defense of Planet 9

A new study by a team from the University of Michigan has shown how Planet 9 could have prevented TNOs…

7 years ago

Hubble Spots Unique Object in the Main Asteroid Belt

An international team of scientists recently used the Hubble space telescope to spot a unique binary asteroid that behaves like…

7 years ago

New Study Says Primordial Asteroid Belt was Empty

A new study by a team from the University of Bordeaux has turned the Asteroid Belt's origins on its head,…

7 years ago

New Study Indicates that Planet 9 Likely Formed in the Solar System

A new study by a team of astronomers from the UK and Switzerland explores how Planet 9 could have ended…

7 years ago

Exoplanet-Hunting Aliens Could Be Looking at Earth Right Now!

A new study by a team of European astrophysicists has turned exoplanet-hunting on its head by asking "could aliens detect…

7 years ago

What are Gas Giants?

The outer planets of the Solar System - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - are gas giants, a designation which…

7 years ago