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

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

Amazon's next group of Kuiper satellites could soon launch from Florida, propelling the company closer to providing internet ...

Scientists at Rice University believe there’s a 40% chance that a mysterious ninth planet — Planet Nine — could be orbiting far beyond Neptune and Pluto in the icy Kuiper Belt. This potential ...

Researchers in the US have suggested there is a 40 percent chance a ninth planet could exist in our solar system. Planet Nine ...

In the frozen outskirts of the solar system, a reddish dwarf planet orbits in silence. Known as Sedna, it is so distant that one trip around the Sun takes more than 11,000 years. For much of that time ...

For decades it was thought that water was prevalent in the outer reaches of the Solar System early in its history, with comets and asteroids delivering moisture to Earth and the inner planets during ...

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

How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? This is what a recent study presented at the ...

Its mass would be seven to 17 times that of Earth, making it what is known as an ice giant, ... The study says it arises from anomalous patterns in the Kuiper Belt, ...

Amazon's next group of Kuiper satellites could soon reach orbit, propelling the company closer to providing internet to ...