Our solar system may ... the outskirts of the solar system is the activity within the Kuiper Belt, an unusual clustering of icy bodies -- including comets and dwarf planets -- which stretches ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the ...

Our solar system used to have nine planets. Astronomer Mike Brown ... “Because of its large mass, it would have a high internal energy that could sustain, for example, subsurface oceans.

Ever since the beginning of the Space Age, the inner planets and the Earth-Moon system ... stream of high-quality data, and it’s been doing it for almost 15 years now. The Solar Dynamics ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

What are the weirdest worlds in our solar system, and how did they come to be? From a dwarf planet that looks like a deflated football, to a tiny moon with cliffs taller than Mt. Everest, to the ...

With the recently completed Visible Tunable Filter (VTF), the dynamics of solar plasma can now be fundamentally analyzed in high resolution. Similar to weather forecasts on Earth, this will make ...