An international team of scientists led by Dr Eric Mamajek of the University of Rochester has determined that 70,000 years ago the recently discovered,...
The cameras of Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990, pointed back toward the Sun and took a series of pictures of the Sun, Earth and other planets, making the...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has acquired new images of the Pluto system. The images, taken with spacecraft’s Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI)...
Researchers using the BESSY II synchrotron in Berlin, Germany have captured information stored in ancient meteorites, formed in the early Solar System...
Scientists working on a primitive meteorite known as Semarkona have found evidence that the protoplanetary disk of the early Solar System was shaped by...
A team of astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii has detected eight massive storms on the northern hemisphere of Uranus, the seventh planet...
An ice giant that resembles our Solar System’s Uranus has been discovered about 25,000 light-years from Earth, by a multinational team of scientists...
Half of the water on our planet predates the formation of the Sun, according to a groundbreaking study carried out by a team of researchers from the United...
Planetary researchers headed by Dr Seth Jacobson from the Observatory de la Cote d’Azur in Nice, France, say they have determined that the Moon formed...
According to a team of scientists reporting online in the journal Science, NASA’s Voyager 1 has indeed left the Solar System and entered interstellar...
An international team of astronomers has used the Low Frequency Receiver onboard the twin Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) to learn more...
The particles streaming into the Solar System from interstellar space have changed direction over the last forty years, says a group of astrophysicists...
Dr Mark Showalter from the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, has discovered a new moon circling Neptune, the eighth and farthest planet from...
According to a new study published today online in the Geophysical Research Letters, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft appears to have exited the heliosphere.
Voyager...
Scientists at the University of Chicago’s Department of the Geophysical Sciences and Enrico Fermi Institute have found the radioactive isotope iron-60...
An international group of astronomers using the Submillimeter Array and the Combined Array for Millimeter-Wave Astronomy has found evidence of what might...
A study led by the University of Zürich and the ETH Zürich has revealed the presence of large amounts of invisible ‘dark matter’ near the Solar System.
The...
Our solar system, where planets have a range of sizes and move in near-circular paths, may be rather unusual, according to a German-British team led by...
