This documentary explores the bizarre characteristics of Triton, Neptune’s strange moon that defies the rules of the solar system with its backward orbit and icy geysers.

Our solar system is a wonder, from the star at the center to the planets and moons in orbit, as seen in these fantastic pictures taken by Hubble, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, and the Mars ...

Because the known Venus co-orbitals have strong eccentricity, they can move farther away from Venus and closer to Earth, thus becoming easier to see in our sky at twilight, when the Sun is below the ...

The entire progression will be observed by the ESA’s orbiters the Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter as well as NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter which will utilize the cutting edge HiRISA ...

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, even though the system is young enough that it should still have a ...

The Solar Orbiter has delivered the "highest resolution image ever of the Sun’s south pole", according to the European Space Agency (ESA). Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbite ...

When you think of telescopes in space, you probably think of the Hubble Space Telescope and its younger, larger sibling, the James Webb Space Telescope.

Harvard researcher Avi Loeb says comet 3I/ATLAS weighs 33 billion tons and spans 3.1 miles, making it far larger than previous interstellar visitors.

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet that never formed. When our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago, the ...

The Sun’s poles may hold answers to long-standing mysteries about magnetic cycles, solar wind, and space weather. The polar regions of the Sun remain one of the least explored areas in solar science.

The recently launched spacecraft will sit upstream of the solar wind and study it before it gets to Earth. Although they will be traveling a million miles through space, the spacecraft will remain ...

Hematite, a form of iron oxide similar to rust, has been found on the Moon, and until now, the source was a confounding mystery. When scientists examined the data returned by India's first lunar ...