A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life. Binary star system Eta Cassiopeiae, located just 19 light-years away, ...

As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic ...

According to Princeton researchers, the classical belt's structure should be understood as consisting of three major ...

A massive solar storm in May 2024 gave scientists an unprecedented look at how Earth’s protective plasma layer collapses ...

A vast region of our solar system, called the Kuiper belt, stretches from the orbit of Neptune out to 50 or so astronomical ...

Scientists have found an old structure in the farthest point of the solar system that can throw light on what the earliest star system looked like, and why the planets are where they are. They are ...

Tossing a bad guy into the Sun sounds simple enough, but orbital mechanics make it a far trickier task than you'd expect.

"Similar to the asteroid belt, the Kuiper Belt is a region of leftovers from the solar system's early history. Like the ...

Pluto's largest moon, Charon, likely formed through a capture event in the early, crowded Kuiper Belt. Three-body encounters ...

We live in changing times. While we once flippantly threw villains to the lions, now we seek to fire them into the sun.

Pluto is more than a distant dot in the sky it is a frozen frontier billions of kilometers away that no human has ever visited Discover the daring plans that nearly sent spacecraft to the ninth planet ...

"The Pluto flyby happened, and I was in the right place at the right time - perfectly positioned to fall in love with it," ...