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 ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has given us some infrared images of the aurora, but Juno is the first spacecraft in a polar orbit around Jupiter," Ali Sulaiman, an assistant professor of physics and ...

To avoid this scenario, Makadia's team plotted the best spots on an asteroid's surface to avoid the keyhole. Their technique ...

Europa, Jupiter’s frozen moon, is one of the most promising places in the solar system to harbor life, with a vast hidden ocean beneath its icy crust. While robotic missions like Pioneer, Voyager, and ...

A Harvard apace boffin has defied the consensus of his peers to insist a giant unidentified mass hurtling through space towards Earth could be an extraterrestrial space vehicle ...

Gravity not only holds us firmly to the ground but also anchors oceans, keeps the atmosphere in place, and binds planets and stars into systems.

On Sept. 14, 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 2 -- known informally as Lunik 2 -- became the first Earth-launched space vehicle to ...

During this clumping together, gaps open up in the protoplanetary disk, which we see as rings around the star. The Atacama ...

Astronomers have directly spotted a rare young planet, WISPIT 2b, still forming within the gap of a dusty ringed disk around a star like our sun—something long theorized but never observed until now.

A team of astronomers has detected for the first time a growing planet outside our solar system, embedded in a cleared gap of a multi-ringed disk of ...

The Europa Clipper cost is estimated to be around $5 billion. This mission aims to investigate Europa’s potential for ...

Nostradamus famously predicted: 'Mars and the scepter will be in conjunction, A calamitous war under Cancer. A short time ...