Are either of the Voyager spacecraft capable of taking a picture of our solar system from their current interstellar ...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget request, if approved by Congress, would kill many of NASA’s plans for robotic ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

"We want to take pictures of other solar systems and see how they're similar ... an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute who co-led the work. "How common is this for long period ...

If you were to look at a giant picture of space, zoom in on the Milky Way galaxy, and then zoom in again on one of its outer spiral arms, you’d find the solar system. Astronomers believe it ...

A computer simulation predicts that the Rubin Observatory will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the ...

They said: ‘The discovery of 2017 OF201 is significant because it’s found in a region of the Solar System thought to be empty ...

Astronomers spotted water around a young, sun-like star for the first time ever, and it could help us understand solar system formation.

We want to take pictures of other solar systems and see how they're similar or different when compared to ours. From there, we can try to get a sense of how weird our solar system is—or how ...