In this curious film, a pair of friends venture out into the desert to build an accurate to scale model of our solar system.

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

Much as we may treasure and proclaim our independence, we actually live in a protective bubble called the heliosphere.

At the turn of the 21 st century, astrophysicists theorized that the Sun was headed toward a deep solar minimum, but a new ...

From the night of September 7 to the early morning of September 8, 2025, a spectacular total lunar eclipse will occur, ...

"This implies that the eastern Mare Imbrium basin may be the current seismically active area of the moon," he said. "If a ...

Recent research indicates that the Moon is not a silent desert; its surface and interior are still 'active.' A team led by ...

Webb uncovers methane on Makemake, showing the icy dwarf planet is more active than once thought - just like Pluto.

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spied the final "auroral footprint" of a moon of Jupiter, meaning that it has watched as the moon ...

The James Webb Space Telescope cannot observe Earth directly. It is too bright and could damage the telescope. However, ...

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Novel materials have a wide array of potential scientific applications, and these honorees have prototypes that could wind up in smartphone screens—or on the moon.