Our solar system is made up of a wide variety of various cosmic bodies. Between planets, moons, and asteroids, the expanse of local space is filled with some remarkable features that will ...

Seeing the Aurora Borealis dance in the night sky is a bucket list item for countless people, but the enchanting phenomenon is not exclusive to Earth. Decades of research and the use of advanced ...

I also attended that flyby, to complete my vicarious exploration of the solar system. Artist's rendering shows one of NASA's twin Voyager and Voyager 2 spacecraft. (NASA via AP) ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

Object Details Author American MPC Research, Inc Notes Title from disc surface. "Exploring the planets, asteroids & comets of our solar system" -Cf. cover of jewelcase. Summary View the awsome ...

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, speeding through our celestial neighborhood.

This artist's concept puts solar system distances in perspective. The scale bar is in astronomical units. One AU is the distance from the sun to the Earth, about 150 million kilometres.

Kosmos-482, a spacecraft bound for Venus in 1972, was a time capsule from the Cold War when superpowers had broad ambitions for exploring the solar system.