Movie-streaming algorithms are now being applied to the hunt for exoplanets

The same way Netflix knows what movie you should watch next, astronomers are now using the same algorithm to find Jupiter-sized exoplanets

NASA selects PUNCH mission to image the Sun’s outer atmosphere

Studying the Sun’s corona will help understand erratic solar behaviour that could potentially harm Earth

The change in surface temperature throughout the dayside on the lunar surface can cause water on the surface to move location

Astronomers have pieced together a sequence of images to produce a departing look at the mysterious Kuiper Belt Object

The greatest news to bring in the new year was that the NASA spacecraft successfully explored its first Kuiper Belt object

The lack of a light curve when examining Ultima Thule has already caused a mystery before the target’s flyby

Scientists and engineers are seriously discussing the possibility of sending an orbiter to Pluto and beyond into the Kuiper Belt

The Kappa equation accounts for the space plasma particle distributions and characterises their thermodynamic behaviour

Studies of a binary pair of asteroids provide an insight into the past of the Solar System

The Hypatia Catalog has data on thousands of stars, and hundreds of exoplanets, that have been observed over 35 years

After ruling out the transportation of substances by asteroids and comets, scientists conclude that organics likely originate from Ceres

The best close-ups of the dwarf planet that humans may see for decades have been released

The dwarf planet’s smaller moons, Nix and Hydra, have been showing off their surface features

With less than four days until the spacecraft’s close approach to the dwarf planet, imagery of Pluto’s system is truly coming into focus