Astronomers at NASA have caught a glimpse of a star system whipping through space at an unprecedented speed. While the system ...

Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come ...

For decades, Pluto was celebrated as the ninth planet of our solar system. However, in 2006, the International Astronomical ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Wolf 359’s extreme radiation and frequent X-ray flares make life-sustaining atmospheres on nearby planets highly unlikely, ...

NASA's Perseverance rover collects Martian soil samples from Jezero Crater, revealing potential signs of past life on Mars.

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

What is space weather, what causes it, and how does it affect humans? Physicist Robyn Millan, who co-chaired a recent ...

A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...

For a few brief evenings around February 28, every planet in our solar system will be visible at once, with Mercury making a cameo in the planetary parade which is running all this month and next.

Toward the end of February, Mercury will join the parade and be visible on February 28, at the same time as the other planets. There are seven planets in the solar system, excluding Earth (sorry, ...