Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show.

With 3.2 billion pixels and a decade-long search, the Rubin Observatory will reveal what’s been hiding in plain sight.

A computer simulation predicts that the Rubin Observatory will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the ...

As kids, we all knew Saturn was the one planet in our solar system with rings. Then, rings were also discovered around Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. And now a new study reports that a ring has been ...

The ring system is around a dwarf planet, named Quaoar, which is approximately half the size of Pluto and orbits the Sun beyond Neptune. The discovery, published in Nature, was made by an ...

“Kids don’t realize that ... is a permanent exhibit, while the Solar System Encounter will run through March 3; both are included with Discovery Cube general admission.

This is an image of Ceres, the nearest dwarf planet to Earth in the solar system. A new dwarf planet extremely far from the sun may have just been discovered. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA ...

ONE OF THE FIRST EXHIBITS INSIDE DISCOVERY ... kids are laughing and exploring, getting a chance to touch lightning. Across the room, a heat-sensing camera helps to teach about light, or solar ...

The Oort Cloud is the name given to a theorized group of potentially trillions of icy objects on the edge of our solar system. But while it has been accepted as a theory for over 70 years ...

The unexpected size of the newly discovered world ... Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. The planet-hunting mission, launched in 2018, surveys the light of the nearest and ...