By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

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Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar object based on its odd path and extreme speed cutting through the solar ...

Scientists may have discovered a dwarf planet far beyond Neptune — an unearthing that may disprove a longstanding theory ...

Our solar system is a pretty wild place, full of amazing stuff. From the giant Sun to the tiny rocks floating around, there’s ...

President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget request, if approved by Congress, would kill many of NASA’s plans for robotic ...

Solar cells made of moon dust could power future space exploration. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 04 / 250403122628.htm ...

If Mars, Earth, and Venus are characters from “Goldilocks and the Three Bears,” the planets of the outer solar system represent fairy tale giants. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are many ...

MDWFP’s Mississippi Museum of Natural Science is your kids' go-to destination for fun and discovery this July.

A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in our solar system. This happened about 4½ billion years ago.. Then the planets began to emerge, as the billions of particles ...