For a long time, children learning about space in school were taught that there were nine planets in our solar system. Then, ...

Data from a now defunct NASA spacecraft has revealed a massive internal reservior of organic material within the second ...

If planet X exists, it is likely a gas giant similar to Neptune. NASA/Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC), CC BY Our solar system is a particularly crowded place. Millions of objects move within it, whether they ...

New observations show that newly formed planets close to a star help shepherd dust and gas to create more planets farther out ...

It’s the question that is forever being asked: is there other life in space? And I’m not here to tell you that definitive ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the ...

While Pluto was demoted to dwarf planet status in 2006 ... of miles further away from the Sun than the known planets of our solar system. Like dark matter, it has never been observed directly.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Using data from NASA's now-defunct Dawn spacecraft, scientists have discovered that the dwarf ...

Using data from NASA's now-defunct Dawn spacecraft, scientists have discovered that the dwarf planet Ceres, the second wettest body in the solar system after Earth, could have an interior reserve ...

In the next decade, researchers will start probing the atmosphere of planets as small as Earth ... atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune, our solar system's ...

NASA's Dawn mission communicated with Earth for the last time, ending its exploration of Ceres and Vesta, the two largest ...