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.

This guide shows you how to make a solar panel and create your own solar system. The process of making solar panels is surprisingly straightforward. The supplies are readily available and ...

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

If we could find life anywhere else in our solar system, it would be a sure-fire indicator that life is incredibly easy to start. If you have the right conditions, you have life. If we find ...

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 ...

In fact, every planet—and every moon—in the solar system will be in the sky during ... so it may be relatively easy to find in theory if you are somewhere with zero light pollution.

and they have very long orbits which means they are found further out in our solar system.” Given this distance and their pattern of movement, it’s easy to see how the mistake was made.

The way people think of the Solar System has changed many times throughout history. Before the development of the telescope, these ideas were based on what could be seen with the naked eye.

Purdue professor along with a team of scientists analyze asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to give a better ...