Solar sail technology could enhance early space weather warnings, improving protection for satellites and power grids.

NASA Scientists discover a fast-moving star and planetary system moving double our solar system speed through the Milky Way. Read more: ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's responsible for the orbits of the planets and their satellites ...

Mini-Neptunes are the most numerous of the more than 5,800 confirmed exoplanets at time of writing, which is interesting, because we have nothing directly analogous to them here in our Solar System.

Keep your eyes on the sky. Six planets in our solar system are coming into alignment and will be visible from Earth. AccuWeather says Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars will be ...

Built on 15 hectares (ha) of existing yard space, it is fitted with 30,000 on-site solar panels. It is designed to be modular and flexible, consisting of a mobile transformer and hybrid substations ...

The Kenya Kwanza administration is advancing plans to establish a faster and more interoperable payment system to rival Safaricom’s popular mobile money platform, M-Pesa. The National Treasury ...

The government has fast-tracked the creation of a mobile payment system that will allow Kenyans to send and receive money instantly, irrespective of the type of bank a customer belongs to. The system ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...

Astronomers and space enthusiasts are in for a treat next month as we can expect a rare planetary parade. This celestial event will see Mercury joining Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and ...

Couldn’t we all do with a little stress reduction? Especially since all seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment.