An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

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A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies.

Among the finds is an object thought to be an asteroid from the main belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

Traveling from one star to another is currently impossible to achieve within a human lifetime. But some projects are designing ways to propel payloads to the nearest star system (Alpha Centauri) using ...

New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based ... a UCF physics doctoral student who worked on the project while studying under Pinilla-Alonso, says ...

Heliophysics enters a pivotal year in 2025 with solar cycle activity, major missions, and a strategic research blueprint ...

The Three Gorges Dam is China’s world’s largest hydropower project. Space-based solar power stations are the next big thing.

The probe accelerated to 430,000 mph, faster than any spacecraft has ever flown, traveling to within 3.8 million miles of the star’s surface.

“Parker Solar Probe is changing the field of heliophysics,” said Helene Winters, Parker Solar Probe’s project ... and science instruments can operate as expected. A unique cooling system ...

The project resulted in countless discoveries regarding the star we orbit and how it influences our solar system ... probe that led it to shut off its science equipment. When a delay in the ...