Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed of chunks of rock and ice like comets, dwarf planets, and random objects ...

The team used more than a decade’s worth of observations of Uranus’ unique aurorae taken with Hubble and refined the planet’s ...

The NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter recently recorded the highest-ever concentration of a rare helium isotope (3He) emitted from the Sun. A Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists sought the source ...

The Solar System’s closest approach to Radcliffe ... who was not involved in the study, told Live Science. Not everyone is convinced that the Radcliffe Wave’s dust caused significant change ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a ...

New observations have revealed that we were wrong about the length of a day on Uranus. According to the most precise ...

So exactly how many solar system moons have we found ... Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan, told Live Science in an email. Astronomers have found dozens of new planetary moons ...

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...

A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...

How can Uranus be used to indirectly study its moons and identify if they possess subsurface oceans? This is what a recent ...

Astronomers finally spotted evidence of auroras on Neptune after years of searching, raising new questions about the planet.