Recently, I came across a news article stating that scientists want to send a spaceship to explore Atlas—not the mountain range we usually talk about, but the "Atlas asteroid" located outside our ...

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...

With new telescopes coming online and fresh discoveries arriving almost weekly, the search is only accelerating. Each new world we find is more than a point of light somewhere in the great darkness.

A visitor from beyond the stars has caught NASA’s eye. The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, observed between 7 and 15 August, is offering astronomers a rare chance to study material from outside our solar ...

A new book imagines what the world would be like if Earth spun faster and faster until days just last two hours.

Last month, astronomers made an exciting discovery, observing an interstellar object — only the third ever observed — hurtling toward the center of the solar system. The object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, has ...

A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) research team successfully conducted the first reinforcement learning (RL) control of ...

If asteroid deflection missions aren’t conducted with the utmost care and precision, they may send objects through a ...

On Sept. 21-22, a partial solar eclipse will see the moon sweep over the sun's disk, blocking its light over a swathe of the ...

After solar activity spent several decades on the decrease, the number of sunspots, flares and coronal mass ejections is once ...

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space ...