As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...

Loeb says that coincidence would happen by chance only 0.6 percent of the time. As it neared the Sun, 3I/ATLAS suddenly got ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the ...

Space debris might sound like something from science fiction, but it's becoming a daily reality for our planet. Every hour of ...

Turn a telescope to the eastern sky in the hours following midnight on Nov. 5 to see two colossal shadows darken the cloud tops of the gas giant Jupiter as the Galilean moons Io and Europa pass ...

Behind the Sun, the comet appears to show signs of acceleration beyond what is expected by gravity. And for reasons not yet ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Abstract: Recent global warming has caused a rapid melting of high mountain Asia (HMA) glaciers. The impact of warming on glacier mass decline is undisputed. However, the influence of precipitation ...

A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...

A new study reveals that the asteroid belt is slowly disappearing, offering insights into its long-term fate and what this means for our solar system.

Have you ever had one of those moments where the sheer vastness of the world or the universe completely blows your mind? It ...

New simulations from Rice University reveal how Jupiter’s rapid early growth blocked gas and dust from reaching the Sun, ...