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 ...

The Solar System has a total of 419 known moons around planets. If we count dwarf planets, asteroids, and other worlds, the ...

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 ...

On this day in 1977, NASA launched Voyager 2, a spacecraft that would go on to make history as one of humanity’s greatest achievements in space exploration. Today, the probe celebrates 48 years in ...

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

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 latest report from the Brazilian Association of Photovoltaic Solar Energy (Absolar) says Brazil's operational solar fleet consists of 42.1 GW from small and medium-sized systems and 17.9 GW from ...

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

Uranus' 29th moon was hidden inside the planet's dark inner rings, new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...