How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between five and 18, plus hundreds of potentially undiscovered ones, depending on ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

Every once in a while, space gives us something totally unexpected. Well this time, the solar system is surprising us with a ...

Makenzie Lystrup’s departure from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center comes soon after the resignation of the director of JPL.

This particular isotope burns away quickly inside stars due to their intense heat. But in cooler objects like brown dwarfs, ...

China, in collaboration with Russia and other countries, has also set a goal of building a lunar base by 2045. India also has ...

The groundbreaking ceremony took place at the dam site of Nyingchi's Mainling hydropower station in Tibet Autonomous Region.

Nitrogen (N) fertiliser limits, climate change, and lack of new chemistry. Those are among the biggest technical challenges ...

China’s dam project will consist of five cascade hydropower stations, with a total investment estimated at around USD 167.8 ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.