The decision comes as the Voyager spacecraft face diminishing power supplies due to the gradual decay of their radioactive ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet – a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar system – using a technique known as ‘transit timing variation’.

Astronomers have for the first time identified oxygen and carbon in the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System. The oxygen naturally exists and is not produced by plant life, as occurs on ...

NASA engineers are turning off two instruments to ensure that the twin spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, can continue exploring space beyond the limits of the solar system. To save energy for ...

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The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.