Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice ...

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

New research by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the National Science Foundation's National Center for Atmospheric ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

A new study introduces a global probabilistic forecasting model that predicts when and where ionospheric disturbances—measured by the Rate of total electron content (TEC) Index (ROTI)—are likely to ...

LHS 1903 flips rock and gas on their heads, hinting that late-born planets can rewrite the rules around common red dwarfs for now.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has spent the past year repeatedly diving into the sun’s outer atmosphere at speeds no human-made ...

NASA has always made it a point to encourage us citizen scientists to lend them a hand. Right now, they could really use your ...

Researchers have developed a solar cell system that uses mirrors to concentrate solar energy. In addition to electricity, it produces heat for a plant that will capture carbon from industrial ...

Just days ago the moon traveled directly between Earth and the sun in what was the first solar eclipse of the year, producing ...

The UK is taking an ambitious step towards space-based solar power after a new ...