The data was captured by NASA’s MAVEN, which entered a Mars-bound orbit back in 2014. Since then, the spacecraft has captured ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists have identified an object about 435 miles (700 km) wide inhabiting the frigid outer reaches of our solar system that might qualify as a dwarf planet, spotting it as it ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

Two days after the latest in a string of test-flight setbacks for his big new Mars spacecraft, Starship, Elon Musk said on ...

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

from the sun. Its orbit is about 1.5 times the size of Earth's. Sunlight takes about 13 minutes to get to Mars, while it takes around 8 minutes to reach our planet. Past missions from Earth to the ...

Elon Musk has said that he believes there is a 50 percent chance that his Mars spacecraft will make its first uncrewed voyage to the red planet at the end of 2026, just two days after the latest ...

This exciting discovery opens up new possibilities for auroral research and confirms that auroras could be visible to future ...