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

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...

Astronomers at Princeton University have uncovered evidence that the outer solar system is more structured than long believed ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

But Rubin’s early data is confounding. Among the newly discovered asteroids, researchers identified 76 with reliable spin ...

Astrophysicists are mapping a vast, hidden structure in the gas around the Sun that behaves like a tunnel carved through ...

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

The 26-foot-tall (8-meter-tall) cargo lander is expected to embark on its first flight during the first quarter of 2026, ...

Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years as well as a ...

Even if future studies show that Europa’s ocean is lifeless today, Byrne sees value in the exploration. “I’m not upset if we don’t find life on this particular moon,” he said. “I’m confident that ...

Astronomers analyzing data from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and ...