It's true that the fastest rocket to date would take around 70,000 years to reach even our nearest neighbour Proxima Centauri... READ MORE›
NEOCam will furthermore help us study the origin of the solar system and enable asteroid exploration and exploitation... READ MORE›
DART is a NASA mission now in the preliminary design phase that will redirect a small asteroid moon around Didymos by simply hitting it... READ MORE›
Initial tests in Nevada on a compact nuclear power system designed to sustain a long-duration NASA human mission on the inhospitable surface of Mars have b... READ MORE›
The category of rocky planets, also known as terrestrial planets, includes Earth, as well as Mercury, Venus and Mars in our own solar system... READ MORE›
The amusement park named the star, which is about 417 light-years from Earth, after itself Space World... READ MORE›
Scientists have seen black holes killing and swallowing stars... READ MORE›
Our solar system had nine planets until Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union, a decision that still stands... READ MORE›
The cigar-shaped body was first spotted in the solar system by researchers on the Pan-Starrs telescope in Hawaii in October, Breakthrough Listen reports... READ MORE›
Asteroids like Oumuamua enter our solar system about once a year, these scientists said... READ MORE›
According to popular imagination, Nibiru, or Planet X, is a hypothetical planet on the edge of the solar system that orbits the sun every 3,600 years... READ MORE›
Ross 128 b is the second-closest planet to be detected outside the solar system with surface temperatures potentially similar to planet Earth... READ MORE›
At a distance of 11 light-years, Ross 128 b is the second-closest planet to be detected yet outside our solar system with surface temperatures potentially similar to ours... READ MORE›
It shows that Ross 128 b is more massive than the Earth, with at least 1.35 times our planet's bulk... READ MORE›
NASA seeks nickname for tiny, icy world on solar system's edge... READ MORE›
Human activities now rival the great forces of nature in driving changes to the Earth system, the paper said... READ MORE›
Our solar system is a tiny part of a galaxy we call the Milky Way... READ MORE›
Its gravity would've messed up the orbits of the inner planets, the Earth, Venus, Mars, probably would've stripped the moon away completely, he said... READ MORE›
Before this discovery, astronomers had one solar system with four rocky planets to study--Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars... READ MORE›
A two-metre-long turtle has reportedly washed onto a beach in Calella, near Barcelona on the northeast coast of Spain... READ MORE›
A 15-year-old intern in England has discovered a new planet, the same size as Jupiter, while carrying out work experience at a university... READ MORE›
The asteroid, known as 2012 TC4,A could come as close as 4,200 miles to Earth, NASA said... READ MORE›
Unlike us, tardigrades -- the world's most indestructible species -- will survive until the sun dies, according to a new Oxford University study released Friday... READ MORE›
If 16 Psyche did start out as a protoplanet, as Professor Elkins-Tanton expects, it would have had a run of very bad luck... READ MORE›
A rocky Earth-sized planet that circles a small, nearby star could be the most important world ever found beyond the solar system, astronomers say... READ MORE›
NASA knows of no asteroid or comet currently on a collision course with Earth, so the probability of a major collision is quite small, it said... READ MORE›
Jupiter's icy moon Europa may be the best place in the solar system to look for extraterrestrial life, according to NASA... READ MORE›
Is there life on jupiter's moons? juice may hold the key... READ MORE›
Rocky asteroids vary in size and are mainly found orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter... READ MORE›
Keele University described Wagg's discovery as a hot Jupiter'' planet that tend to maintain tight orbits around its stars... READ MORE›
The fourth asteroid this year buzzed the Earth about midday Thursday, passing between the Earth and moon... READ MORE›
I look up to the night sky through the black filigree of ash trees... READ MORE›
When Nasa's New Horizons mission was launched at the start of 2006 Pluto was a planet but it's not any more... READ MORE›
The Earth could be plunged into a 'mini ice age' in just 15 years from now according to new research which looks at the Sun's activity cycle... READ MORE›
The splendor of the night sky still awaits... READ MORE›
There are billions of comets in our Solar System, which are typically located in one of two regions... READ MORE›
To be able to stitch every image together the finished image took weeks of calculations in order to remove and identify any variables between each image... READ MORE›
NEW YORK -- The search to infinity and beyond begins now... READ MORE›
It may be one of the darkest dwarf planets in our solar system, Barentsen said... READ MORE›
The global investment bank Goldman Sachs has claimed mining asteroids for precious metals is a realistic goal... READ MORE›
One of the closest encounters between a comet and Earth has been captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA says... READ MORE›
While the speed of light might seem fast from the surface of the Earth, in the black never-ending vastness of space, it's actually quite slow... READ MORE›
The fundamental question is rebounding once again after a mysterious radio signal was picked up by a Russian telescope... READ MORE›
Such temperature would have made Venus, surprisingly for a planet closer to the Sun, a bit chillier than Earth was at the time... READ MORE›
Surprised scientists breathe a sigh of relief just as NASA prepares to launch its probe to Bennu, a space rock that regularly comes close to earth... READ MORE›
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