New observations using the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) spectrograph – a high-precision instrument on the 3.6-m telescope at...
Tiny particles of stardust have been found in meteorites. Whether some of these particles, known as ‘pre-solar grains,’ came from classical novae is...
This incredible mosaic of images from NASA’s Dawn orbiter shows one of Ceres’ most intriguing features — a mysterious mountain called Ahuna Mons.
Ahuna...
According to a team of planetary scientists led by Dr. Patrick Peplowski of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, planet Mercury’s...
This newly released image from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft shows a chain of snowcapped mountains in Pluto’s Cthulhu Regio.
Methane snow-capped mountains...
Using data from NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), researchers have accurately determined the strength and direction of the magnetic field...
Images taken by the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) instrument on board NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft suggest that Charon once had an underground...
NASA scientists have produced this geologic map of one of Pluto’s most dominant features from images taken by New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance...
This image, captured by Cassini’s wide-angle camera, was photographed when the mission was 40,000 miles (65,000 km) from Tethys, and Saturn and its rings...
A team of planetary researchers from the United States has found surprisingly little correlation between how dense a Saturn’s ring might appear to be...
This breathtaking animation, produced by a team of scientists at the German Aerospace Center, shows a simulated flight over the surface of Ceres, based...
NASA’s New Horizons robotic probe captured this image of the night side of Charon on July 17, 2015, nearly three days after closest approach to the Pluto...
A team of astronomers at the California Institute of Technology has found strong evidence of a massive gaseous planet – informally named Planet Nine...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sent back a beautiful image of one of two potential cryovolcanoes spotted on the surface of Pluto.
This image, taken...
NASA’s Cassini robotic orbiter has sent an amazing picture of Saturn, one of the Solar System’s gas giants.
This image, taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft,...
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft took these images of the dwarf planet Ceres on December 10, 2015, at an altitude of around 240 miles (385 km), which is its lowest-ever...
The discovery of hundreds of huge comets in the outer Solar System over the last 20 years means that these ancient objects pose a real hazard to our civilization,...
