The mysterious interstellar object traveling through our solar system has been spotted acting like no other comet ever seen before, revealing its alien origins. Scientists from Michigan State ...

The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA's tally of exoplanets does not include more than 8,000 additional candidate planets ...

The solar system holds extraordinary wonders, from Voyager 1’s historic journey into interstellar space after traveling billions of miles, to Uranus spinning on its side with extreme seasons lasting ...

A faster, cheaper way to manufacture silicon solar cells, partially funded by the Energy Department and fine-tuned at its National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), has won a coveted R&D 100 award ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

Editor's note: Georgia BRIGHT contacted The Cool Down to say it had been told by the Environmental Protection Agency that the Solar for All funding as covered by this article had been terminated. What ...

From planets that rain diamonds to moons with hidden oceans, the Solar System holds more mysteries than most realize. These nine facts reveal just how extraordinary our cosmic neighborhood is. Trump ...

Space can surprise even those who spend their lives studying it. People often think of our solar system as just a few planets and a bunch of empty space. Yet new observations suggest we have been ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

Institute of Chemistry, Casali Center for Applied Chemistry, The Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel ...