Launched in 1977, the Voyager spacecrafts were never expected to remain operational for over four decades. Yet in 2024, they continue to function far beyond Pluto’s orbit, challenging our historical ...

Earth's atmosphere pulses in sync with the sun's fiery outbursts, indicating it is more sensitive to solar activity than previously thought, according to new research.

From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets ...

A ninth planet the size of Neptune may be hidden in the far reaches of the solar system, but the evidence has left some ...

Billions of years ago, in the frozen edges of the solar system, a violent impact shaped one of space’s oddest pairs. Instead ...

In 2005, thanks to Michael Brown’s scientific antics, Pluto was removed from the list of planets in the solar system. In 1968, the Apollo 8 mission flew around the moon. In 2001, Chris Hadfield became ...

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class of planets.

Astronomers have long speculated about an unseen planet lurking in the solar system's outer edge. This hypothetical world, ...

Macduff met the Herald this week at the Jupiter basalt marker along the Columbia Park Trail, just east of the blue bridge. It ...

Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

A 9th planet in our solar system might be found — and no, it’s not Pluto - Is there another planet out there? Researchers say ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...