If, for some reason, we as a society executed villains by firing them into the Sun, this is how an astronomers says we would ...

Pluto's largest moon, Charon, likely formed through a capture event in the early, crowded Kuiper Belt. Three-body encounters ...

"This successful test marks a major step forward in the development of future satellite control systems." For the first time, ...

We live in changing times. While we once flippantly threw villains to the lions, now we seek to fire them into the sun.

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Blue Origin used its New Glenn rocket to launch twin probes that will study Mars' atmosphere and ionosphere — and then ...

Nearly a century after Pluto’s discovery, astronomers are still hunting for mysterious planets beyond Neptune - including a ...

Recent scientific modeling has proposed a fascinating theory about how Pluto captured its largest moon, Charon. The theory ...

Is a sun a star or a planet? While science now agrees the sun is a star, new telescopes may soon challenge how we define ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...