We’ve sent spacecraft to every planet in the solar system, but none of them are truly safe to explore. Each world destroys ...

Take a mind-expanding tour across our solar system, from Earth to Pluto, learning the staggering distances, travel times, and ...

So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

Those concerned that 3I/ATLAS' arrival to our solar system meant that some sort of alien invasion was imminent can breathe a ...

Ammonite belongs to an ultra rare family of bodies called sednoids. Only four are known so far: Sedna, 2012 VP113, Leleākūhonua, and now Ammonite. All of them travel on elongated orbits that never ...

Astronomers discovered Gomez’s Hamburger, a massive protoplanetary disk. Edge-on view shows dust and gas layers with clumps ...

Scientists have found new evidence suggesting that interstellar 3I/ATLAS is not an alien spaceship, as one conspiracy theory ...

A study published in Nature Communications suggests that Europa’s rocky seafloor is likely too mechanically strong to support ...

In doing so, they found this orphan is within the same weight class as Saturn, strengthening the case that the galaxy teems ...