“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto ...

When was Pluto discovered? Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, an American astronomer at the Lowell Observatory ...

Whether Pluto is officially a planet is the least interesting thing about the runt of the solar system, astronomers will tell you 95 years after the discovery of the fascinating and sometimes ...

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.

Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks as the world's telescopes ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Located around 858 light-years from Earth, WASP-121b has 1.2 times the mass of Jupiter but is puffed out, making it 1.9 times the width of the solar system's largest planet. It is so close to its ...

The eight major planets in our Solar System orbit the sun on the same flat plane but at vastly different speeds. Mercury, being the closest to the sun, completes an orbit in only 88 days ...

Finding this organic material on Benu means that the building blocks of life could have come from an asteroid, and in our early solar system, asteroids could have deposited these building blocks on ...

“Other celestial bodies such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, or the dwarf planet Ceres have been able ... of any information through the EurekAlert system.

While the planets won’t be perfectly aligned, their placement will follow the orbital plane of our solar system. Which planets are parading in January and February? The January planetary ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered a new super-Earth with an 'eccentric' orbit that swings it in-and-out of its star's habitable zone. Nearby exoplanet, HD 20794 d, orbits a star very similar to our Sun ...