Bothell, Wash.-based Portal Space Systems shows off the lab where its solar thermal propulsion system will be developed.
At first glance, the night sky appears still. But in reality, everything moves, our Solar System being no exception. As it ...
The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...
Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...
One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about ...
The Solar System continues to surprise us day after day and its presence in terms of dominance and expansion goes far beyond what we thought. And indeed, a long way from Neptune an ...
With the new spottings, Saturn has usurped Jupiter which has 95 known moons, while Uranus (28) and Neptune (16) remain third ...
A distant exoplanet discovered, named Enaiposha, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a "super-Venus" ...
Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.
A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...