Still, the demotion of Pluto remains controversial. The sun is by far the largest object in our solar system, containing 99.8% of the solar system's mass. It sheds most of the heat and light that ...

Researchers looking for objects in the Kuiper Belt – the donut-shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune containing icy ...

Recent discoveries have shown that the outer Solar System is more crowded with celestial bodies than previously believed.

our own Solar System. If the existence of these objects is confirmed, it would suggest that the Kuiper Belt was once much larger than previously estimated, which could influence the study of ...

Long-sought evidence of alien life could lurk in Earth's oceans, or in 'weird' objects orbiting near our planet, Harvard ...

the new study examined how often primordial black holes might fly through the solar system, and whether they might produce effects that scientists could detect on visible objects.

"State-of-the-art simulations of the solar system include more than a million objects, each of which has a tiny residual effect," study co-author, Benjamin Lehmann, a researcher at MIT, said in ...

A decade of observations with the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii has uncovered the existence of an intriguing cluster of objects at the edge of our Solar System. The resulting studies, set to be ...

front of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Mars is a famously red object in our solar system, but it’s not the reddest. That honor goes to Amalthea, a tiny moon orbiting around massive gas giant planet ...

The cost of a solar panel system depends on many factors ... any FindEnergy solar data and are grayed out on the map. The table below includes estimated solar savings after the federal solar ...

A more realistic use for lasers is for deflecting incoming asteroids or as propulsion systems for spacecraft. In a new paper, ...

A decade of observations with the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii has uncovered the existence of an intriguing cluster of objects at the edge of our Solar System. The resulting studies, set to be published ...