By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

For millennia, the way we found our way home has been using the stars. The tech we have sent towards those stars also uses ...

Our solar system is a pretty wild place, full of amazing stuff. From the giant Sun to the tiny rocks floating around, there’s ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an ...

How long does it take Pluto to orbit the sun? Learn more about how this planet makes one lap around our Solar System.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...

In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...

Just when you thought you knew all the worlds in the solar system, astronomers go and discover a new object that could rewrite the space map. This icy world, temporarily named 2017 OF201, could be ...