China advances plans for dual solar system boundary missions China has published coordinated papers outlining dual missions ...

A new solar-electrolysis system uses a copper-doped catalyst to turn farm waste into hydrogen and valuable formate.

Responding to increased state-level interest in plug-in solar, a nonprofit group has published an in-depth guidebook to help state policymakers navigate the path to allowing households to use the ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. The image was taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). In ...

Scientists have discovered a comet traveling one way out of the solar system after a close encounter with Saturn. The comet, designated Comet A117uUD (A117uUD), was only discovered on June 14, 2024, ...

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Astronomers surveying the outer solar system have revealed that a rare object far beyond Neptune is moving in sync with the eighth planet in an unexpected way. Called 2020 VN40 and first discovered in ...

An ancient comet discovered in our solar system this summer is offering a rare opportunity to learn more about distant planetary systems far beyond the reach of any spacecraft, researchers say. The ...

At the farthest reach of the Sun’s influence, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has stumbled into a region that behaves less like empty space and more like a furnace, where charged particles heat to tens of ...

Our solar system is a weird place. Much more than a home to eight planets, it’s filled with a myriad of fascinating other smaller bodies, including moons, asteroids, and comets. In recent decades, ...