When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

Portal Space Systems says it has successfully tested its solar thermal propulsion system at operational temperatures inside a ...

A new study suggested that solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by up to 80% by 2050, per the ...

The number of confirmed planets outside of our solar system—known as exoplanets—has risen to 6,000, NASA has said. There is huge variety across these distant worlds, the space agency says, with ...

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...

Australia’s rapid uptake of solar panels is creating a looming waste problem with most solar photovoltaic (PV) panels being directed to landfill at the end of their life. However, University of South ...

Astronomers are still poring over data to get a better sense of 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object to ever have been observed careening through our solar system. The unusual visitor is set to ...

Formamidinium lead iodide is considered one of the best-performing materials in the halide perovskite group, since it has promising properties for future solar cell technologies. New findings from ...