The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

There are many theories about how dynamics in the early solar system led to the cosmic neighbourhood we now inhabit, but ...

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

For example, if you install an 8 kilowatt (kW) solar system for $22,500, you would get a $6,750 tax credit on your next IRS filing. If the credit exceeds your tax burden and you cannot use the ...

Ask a group of people to name the most amazing thing they have seen in the daytime or nighttime sky and you may get answers like: the total solar eclipse of August 2017, Venus’ solar transit ...