We have mapped and discovered a large portion of the most dangerous asteroids in the Solar System, but there is a glaring ...

Use cases for smart materials in space exploration keep cropping up everywhere. They are used in everything from antenna ...

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

ESA ran a full-scale solar storm drill to prepare for the next Carrington Event - an eruption powerful enough to disrupt life on Earth.

High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its magnetic heartbeat. For decades, scientists have struggled to see these regions, ...

Space weather can be a silent threat, its effects often invisible until disaster strikes. Yet, as humanity grows more ...

The simulation of the Solar System that came the closest to the observation was the presence of a small planet, between the ...

A solar sail is designed to capture the tiny amounts of radiation pressure exerted by sunlight to propel a spacecraft to incredible speeds. The advantages are numerous: by acting like a sailing ship ...

Satellites are being pushed out of their orbits by the sun as space weather is set to get even more intense over the next few years. Back in February, Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX announced that ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be ...

A passing star, or a stellar flyby, with the potential to pull Neptune out of its orbit by just 0.1%, could mean catastrophe for the entire solar system. But don’t worry — it won’t happen in our ...

On Monday at 12:25 GMT, the European Space Agency (ESA) executed final shutdown on the Herschel space telescope after shooting it into solar orbit. This shutdown marks the end of Herschel’s successful ...