The Solar System consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity; the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, along with dwarf planets like ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film “Star Wars,” the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then indeed have ...

It's not an up-close view of a rocket launch, but space enthusiasts in Tennessee could be able to track the path of the ... km per hour) on orbit and circle the planet approximately every 90 ...

The launch was originally scheduled for April 9 but was postponed due to weather ... miles per hour (27,359 km per hour) on orbit and circle the planet approximately every 90 minutes." ...

A team of astronomers poring through old astronomical data may have seen a candidate for the elusive Planet Nine – a ...

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

Thursday's launch was SpaceX's 49th Falcon 9 mission of 2025. SpaceX has another launch coming up later tonight. The Starlink ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just captured its first image of the Curiosity rover driving along the red planet’s surface ... The orbiter reached Mars orbit in March 2006. It snapped this scene ...

As the booster landed safely back on Earth, the Falcon 9 upper stage continued to ascend. Having the payload of 28 satellites, it entered low Earth orbit and ultimately deployed the satellites an ...