Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, ...

NASA and IAU have named a feature on asteroid Donald Johanson after India’s Narmada Valley, honouring its fossil heritage.

If you have binoculars and dark skies, right now you might be able to catch two comets. Better still, one is brightening enough that it may be visible to the naked eye within a few weeks. The history ...

Material collected from an asteroid via spacecraft closely matches the heavier elements of the sun, providing scientists with ...

The heist was the latest in a string of thefts at museums in France. Thieves broke into a gallery at the National Museum of ...

Researchers were able to determine that the asteroid came from the inner Asteroid Belt, the region between Mars and Jupiter, ...

A new NASA study suggests that solar activity will remain high or rise further in the coming decades, contradicting previous ...

“The idea that Ryugu-like objects held on to ice for so long is remarkable,” he added. “It suggests that the building blocks ...

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

Because they are densely covered in dust, the regions in which stars are formed are particularly difficult to study. Now there is an impressive map.

Spiral arms are crowded regions of space filled with stars, dust, and gas. As the solar system traveled through them, ...

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...