Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not seem like a challenge, given how intense the sun's light can feel on Earth.

The conical capsule landed with the assistance of a parachute and was quickly recovered. The spacecraft carried a ...

NASA is decommissioning two more instruments on the 47-year-old Voyager space probes due to dwindling power. Only three of ...

Saturn just solidified its title as ‘moon king’ with an updated tally of 274 satellites orbiting the gas giant. The ...

Mar. 11, 2025 — A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in ...

Saturn surpasses Jupiter with 128 newly discovered moons, becoming the planet with the most moons in our solar system.

Neptune is an ice giant, composed primarily of hydrogen, helium, and methane, with a hot, dense fluid of icy materials above a small rocky core. Neptune has 14 known moons and at least five main rings ...

Experiments suggest that processes in the interior of the moon could keep it swathed in an atmosphere that should otherwise ...

The seventh planet from the sun was first discovered on 13 March 1781 by William Herschel, a German-British astronomer.