Solar System is wrapped in such a shield, a bubble created by the Sun. Known as the heliosphere, it extends billions of kilometres into space and protects life on Earth.

A billion or so years into its evolution, the icy dwarf planet Ceres may have had the right conditions to sustain life, which ...

Over millions of years, Uranus’s inner moons may have collided and spread out into rings. As the material in the rings diffused, they moved farther away from the planet. Eventually, that material can ...

Woodward Academy, a private pre-K-12 school in Atlanta, Georgia, is likely the first K-12 school in the country to install ...

The moon - which is yet to be named - was discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, and is believed to be around six ...

When people picture space, they often imagine endless black emptiness dotted with planets and stars. But new research shows ...

The Solar System has a total of 419 known moons around planets. If we count dwarf planets, asteroids, and other worlds, the count more than doubles. The "known" in known moon is the important part, ...

IBM’s and NASA’s researchers say early tests show that Surya has achieved a 16% improvement in the accuracy of solar flare classifications. They intend to continue training the model to visually ...

This invisible boundary, located about 100 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun (one AU is the distance from Earth to the Sun), is where the solar wind slows down dramatically after running into ...

The new moon's estimated size is about 6 miles across, with its small size possibly contributing to its ability to hide from ...

But it’s not just looks. Rocky composition, general size, orbital behaviors—a lot of those qualities can be the same on both planets and moons. And on the flip side, they can be very different between ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered another moon orbiting Uranus, expanding the planet’s natural satellite count ...