This video explores the key characteristics of each planet within our solar system. Suitable for teaching science at KS1 and ...

NASA's testing a solar sail system in space, and the spacecraft that brought the tech there has snapped a photo.

NJIT researchers have secured a $593,864 National Science Foundation grant to pioneer a new AI system for rapidly and ...

"The most exciting part of the HSC was the discovery of 11 objects at distances beyond the known Kuiper Belt," said Yoshida.

If microscopic black holes born a fraction of a second after the Big Bang exist, then at least one may fly through the solar ...

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

"Primordial black holes do not live in the solar system. Rather, they're streaming through the universe, doing their own ...

A new study suggests that a microscopic black hole might pass through our solar system once every decade or so.

Scientists say microscopic black holes could explain the elusive "dark matter" that makes up a quarter of all matter in the ...

Our solar system might still bear the scars from an extremely close shave with an alien star. Such an encounter – the closest pass we know of – would have shaken up objects on the outskirts and might ...

A more realistic use for lasers is for deflecting incoming asteroids or as propulsion systems for spacecraft. In a new paper, ...

The weekend brought some wild space news, including a sailing spacecraft and, of course, a couple of astronauts stranded on ...