A team of researchers has outlined how a new "direct fusion drive" propulsion system could allow us to reach Sedna this ...

Vomit Comet “These measurements give us a look at how this enormous, icy world works,” said lead author Nathan Roth of American University and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. “We’re seeing explosive ...

The Oort cloud has sent its biggest comet yet towards the inner solar system, and it is travelling at an insane speed, ...

Since the asteroid belt is past Mars, there's an average 25-minute communications delay in each direction, making manual control from Earth and its surrounding environs exceedingly tedious.

In one captivating sequence, visualised above, I learned that a star system called Gliese 710 is due to pass through the Oort cloud, a vast area of icy objects surrounding our solar system, in ...

Their values for the nucleus size and dust mass are in agreement with previous ALMA observations and confirm it as the largest Oort Cloud comet ever found. ALMA's ability to precisely measure ...

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Have you ever wondered how many stars you can see at night? From a perfect dark sky location, free from any light pollution, a person with excellent vision may observe a few thousand stars in the sky ...

With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera C. Rubin Observatory could be about to start solving the mysteries of the universe, from dark matter to Planet Ni ...