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.

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

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

NASA said the system is thought to be moving at least 1.2 million miler per hour, nearly twice as fast as our solar system.

Our team found that the average homeowner installs a solar system ranging in size from 6 kilowatts (kW) to 8 kW. For this range, solar panels cost between $15,000 and $22,500 before incentives ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...

Read our guide to learn about how much you can save with the federal solar tax credit in 2024. The federal tax credit covers 30% of a consumer’s total solar system cost, which means you could ...