A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...

A research institution here has developed the world’s first automated manufacturing equipment to create next-generation ...

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

Last week, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University's Binar Space Program burned up in Earth's atmosphere.

Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

The stellar engine idea dates back to science fiction author Olaf Stapledon ... its low-mass companion star with between 0.01 ...

The Northern Taurid meteor shower is expected to peak Monday night into Tuesday. Here’s what to look for and how to see it.

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by ...