The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.

Simulations show that the stars’ tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing into Earth — or let Jupiter eject our world from the solar system.

Our solar system’s origin story spans billions of years and involves clouds of gas, cosmic collisions, and planetary ...

Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' research focused on two of the smaller ones, Amalthea and Thebe. Both are inside ...

Astronomers discover many asteroids and comets each year, some of which are near-Earth objects (NEOs) that move through the ...

So far have run into three types of entities associated with bases at various locations within the solar system,' the test ... The final location was described as being somewhere south of the ...

The Sweden Solar System is the largest scale model of the ... at the Royal Institute of Technology in Vetenskapens Hus. Location of models in Sweden. Credit: Skrytis / Wikimedia Commons The Earth is ...

Sub-Neptune planets that are smaller than Neptune in size are the most common type of planet known to exist in the Milky Way, but they are absent from the solar system. They have atmospheres ...

Scientists have determined that around 14 million years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and might have experienced increased interstellar dust, which could ...

Our solar system passed through a vast wave of gas and dust around 14 million years ago, dimming Earth’s view of the ... in time to reveal their historic location. They also calculated the ...

It is almost time to get a glimpse of the incredibly rare 'planetary parade' that will see the entire rest of the solar system visible in Earth's skies ... to find a darker location.

Mars SKY AT Viewed from above the solar system, the seven planets will fall within Earth’s line of sight ... evening to catch them all may vary by location. Astronomers recommend using a ...