The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha ...

On it, you can view objects in our solar system from different viewpoints and moments in time. Fill out each drop down menu (date, field of view, ect,) and then click run simulator.

For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky, thanks to a rare great planetary alignment. Here's how to make sure you don't miss this ...

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers discovered that the inner portion of the Oort cloud likely has spiral arms ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

CosmoScout VR is an open-source simulation of our solar system developed at the Institute of Software Technology at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). It is primarily aimed at the interactive ...

At the edge of our solar system, a host of large, icy bodies make up the Oort cloud, which appears to sport two spiral arms reminiscent of a disk-shaped galaxy. New research founded upon a simulation ...

The Solixon A-22 simulator is designed for a wide range of PV technologies, including thin-film and perovskite solar cells. The research-sized, steady-state system has a sample illuminated area ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...