The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

Why do all planets in our solar system orbit the Sun the same way? This documentary unravels the cosmic forces, from the solar system’s violent birth to the hidden laws of physics, that keep the ...

The solar system holds extraordinary wonders, from Voyager 1’s historic journey into interstellar space after traveling ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, ...

3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the public and even most of our deep space assets. Its hyperbolic orbit tells us ...

The astronomers are ready to probe Neptune-sized exoplanets through ATREIDES, a new project designed to unravel how planetary ...

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

This was an unexpected and coincidental discovery of a small, icy, egg-shaped planet in the outermost reaches of our solar ...

White dwarfs may still host habitable planets. Conditions like tidal heating and migration shape their potential for life. The Sun will eventually die. This will occur when it exhausts the hydrogen ...

An international scientific team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including members of the UNIGE Astronomy Department, the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, the University of ...

Scientists have developed a new form of nuclear propulsion that they claim could slash mission times to Mars and enable ...