Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible ...

From Mercury to Neptune, explore our solar system and learn more about our cosmic home. The solar system is our cosmic neighborhood, made up of the sun and everything that orbits it — planets ...

By examining the paths of particles ejected from Alpha Centauri, the study sheds light on the interstellar journey of cosmic debris and its potential impact on our own solar system. For centuries ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Webb Telescope Captures Its ...

As we attempt to become a multi-planet species recent research has mapped a “interstellar tunnel” from our solar system pointing toward the constellation Centaurus. That is direction in which ...

In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast moving body using the world’s most powerful telescopes. It was found to be ...

To give people a hand, Cosmic has developed a robotic assistant that does the heavy lifting on solar job sites. Utility-scale solar panels can be enormous, weighing up to 90 pounds. Workers are ...

Once the quirky underdog of our solar system, Pluto held planetary status until 2006, when it got a cosmic demotion that still stings space fans. Discovered in 1930, Pluto was the ninth planet for ...