Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

With next-generation telescopes, tiny space probes, and more, scientists aim to search for life beyond our solar system—and make contact. Propelled to a fifth the speed of light by a laser beam ...

In a nutshell Scientists found pristine salt minerals in asteroid Bennu samples that formed in a specific sequence as ancient ...

If astrobiologists are ever going to detect life beyond our solar system, it will arguably be done via spectroscopy of an earth-like planet's atmosphere as it passes in front of its parent star.

In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...

In the frigid realm beyond Neptune, the material available ... much closer together than the planets in our solar system. Some are Jupiter- or Neptune-size worlds that race on insanely hot orbits ...

The telescope, currently about 60% complete, is intended to search for evidence of potential life on planets beyond our solar ...

Pluto, our sun's most remote and mysterious planet, may once a satellite of Neptune. Current theories about its origin provide new clues to the genesis of the solar system By Owen Gingerich ...

Astronomy and astrophysics are the study of objects and phenomena that are found beyond our solar system. This combines theoretical simulations and observation with both terrestrial and space ...

The Kuiper Belt (also called the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt) is a disc-shaped region beyond the orbit ... new TNOs could revolutionize our theories about how the solar system formed,” said Lykawka.