NASA has launched a groundbreaking mission to study the heliosphere, the massive protective bubble surrounding our solar ...
Total solar eclipses — which occur, on average, about once every 18 months — are stunning to witness: As the sun's bright light is completely put out, day turns to night, the wind dies down, and ...
NASA is preparing to launch two missions on Tuesday: one to study the sun, the other to examine, oh, just the origins of the universe. “How does the universe work? How did we get here within that ...
The asteroid belt may seem permanent, but it is far from static. Its slow decline reveals a more violent past when more ...
An illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope as it orbits the sun in our solar system, 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: SA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez The James Webb Space ...
3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the ...
The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...
The question of whether life exists beyond our solar system is one of those mysteries that humanity can’t quite let […] ...
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. When ...