Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station’s first visitors from India, Poland and Hungary headed back to ...

Quantum networking is being rapidly developed world-wide. It is a key quantum technology that will enable a global quantum ...

Step into California’s eerie desert where the ground twists, the sky stretches, and nothing looks like it belongs on this ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive, hidden exoplanet nestled in the dusty disc of a young star—MP Mus—by combining ...

Astronomers have long been fascinated by the idea that Earth could harbor small, temporary satellites, known as minimoons, that briefly orbit the planet before escaping back into space. A recent ...

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet—between three and ten times the size of Jupiter—hiding in the swirling disk of ...

New images reveal that the strange Martian stripes on the slopes are formed by avalanches of dry dust, not liquid water.

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

A key method of forming planets finally has observational evidence, thanks to a network of radio telescopes in the U.K. that ...