Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' research focused on two of the smaller ones, Amalthea and Thebe. Both are inside ...

The biggest rainbow in the solar system was just captured by newly-launched spacecraft as NASA scientists study the sun and ...

Scientists have discovered how solar activity affects the velocity distribution and evolution of helium pickup ions.

One set of dots had matching colors and brightness. open image in gallery Is there a possible ninth planet in our solar system? Researchers say they may have found a candidate (Credit: ESO/Tom ...

The discoveries are helping them better classify different TNOs and understand the complex chemical reactions in space that may relate to the formation of our solar system and the origin of life.

Our solar system consists of four small, rocky, inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) and four large, gaseous, outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune).

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been ...

BrightNight wants to build the Deschutes Solar and Battery Energy Storage System Facility in Wasco County. Chinese battery giant goes after Portland-area company ...

This week Mercury joins the queue. Now every other world in our solar system will be visible among the stars at the same time — if you know where to look. According to Gerard van Belle ...

The best rooftop solar panels have high efficiency ratings and great warranties. Take a look at CNET's expert picks for the best home solar panels. Our reviewers have spent hours reading solar ...

But that includes exoplanets, alien worlds that orbit alien suns. Only eight planets call our solar system home. Or there might still be nine if some astronomers are correct about an as-yet ...

The Sun, the planets, and all the other flotsam and jetsam that constitute the solar system are so insignificant that we can consider the entire mass a point in space. No matter where you might ...