Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

In Greek mythology, a centaur is a creature that’s half-human, half-horse. Now, scientists have used NASA’s most powerful ...

Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the ...

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The discovery doubles the known number of these mysterious celestial objects across our solar system that resemble asteroids but zip through space like comets, albeit without the “tail” comets ...

The evolution of the orbits of the planets is a complex process. Initially the planets formed out of a rotating disk of gas ...

Massive object passing through solar system is a better explanation for nature of orbits of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune ...

For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the ...

The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it's kept our Solar System well organized and ...

The asteroid belt is messy and sometimes a threat to our solar system’s planets, so on this episode of Dead Planets Society it’s time to tidy it up into a single asteroid world ...

“We wanted to determine how often our Sun produces superflares; however, the duration of direct solar observations is ...