Astronomers were fascinated after spotting an object from interstellar space hurtling through the solar system earlier this ...

On Sept. 18, 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photo of Earth and the moon. It was the first time both the Earth and ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and ...

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space ...

NASA spotted a new moon almost at the border of our solar system. Back in 1986, a theory came up that this cosmic body could ...

NASA aims to study rocky planets similar to Earth and analyse their atmospheres for biosignatures. The James Webb Space ...

Welcome to SolarBalls, where entertaining space animations meet educational insights about the solar system and the universe.

On Sept. 21-22, a partial solar eclipse will see the moon sweep over the sun's disk, blocking its light over a swathe of the ...