Astrophysicists have achieved a major breakthrough by capturing images of exocomet belts around 74 nearby stars. Using the ...

Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...

Planetesimal belts, remnants of the planet formation process, hold a wealth of clues about planetary systems beyond our own.

Arrokoth is composed of two separate bodies, 3 and 9 miles across. In the distant past they rotated so slowly about each other that their mutual gravitational attraction caused them to come together ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

NASA reveals Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, with frozen oceans and signs of ancient hydrothermal activity, ...

Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot ...

New research suggests Pluto may have had a “kiss” with its largest moon billions of years ago in a harmless collision. The report, published in “Nature Geoscience,” describes how the minuscule dwarf ...

The proposed lifespan for the farm was 40 years [Google] Plans for a temporary solar farm on green belt land have been refused. The proposals, for Usworth House Farm near Springwell village ...

The committee report, while recognising the proposal as "inappropriate development in the Green Belt" that would "harm" its openness "both spatially and visually", still deemed the solar farm ...

Growing up, I was taught that there were nine planets in the solar system. That all changed in 2006, when the International Astronomical Union voted to demote Pluto's status to that of dwarf planet ..