The Solar System is vast, made up of eight planets, countless moons, and millions of asteroids, all orbiting the Sun. But like any territory, it has a boundary. This boundary is invisible, yet it ...

To tell a Mars rover to turn left or an orbiter to change focus, mission scientists have to beam powerful transmissions ...

On the side of the Sun facing Earth, a giant coronal hole appeared in the shape of an enormous love heart, many times the ...

Astronomers predict it will pass relatively close to four planets (but not Earth) and the Sun, then continue its cosmic journey. A Harvard professor made headlines theorizing our visitor is a ...

Objects like 3I/ATLAS could become the "seeds" of giant planets after being captured in the discs of dust and gas surrounding ...

Several well-known meteorite discoveries are still a mystery. Avi Loeb’s interpretation of some meteorite debris possibly being of alien origin is controversial, because peer‑reviewed analyses point ...

Hubble has captured a dense, burned-out star in the act of consuming a Pluto-like object. Happening some 260 light years from Earth, the new observation, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

Since astronomers found the first planets outside our solar system in 1992 and the first planet around a sunlike star in 1995 ...

The news: NASA's Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ancient microbial life on Mars. The discovery represents ...

The moon and Venus will shine vividly alongside a bright star in the early morning in a celestial rendezvous that should be visible across the U.S.

Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s ...

Monday is the first day of Fall for us in the northern hemisphere. It is the first day where there will be more darkness than ...