The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...

At roughly 250,000 kilometers per hour, comet 3I/ATLAS did not merely pass through the inner solar system it tore through it, ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS has arrived in the inner solar system behaving as if the usual rules of comet physics were optional. Instead ...

Could the icy moons of our solar system hold life beyond our planet? Keith Cooper looks at how planetary scientists plan to ...

NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission launched in 2025 alongside NASA’s SPHEREx space ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

From the ‘year of the Moon’ to discovering ‘the history of the entire solar system,’ here is what to look out for.

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

A soldier returned from the Sahara desert in 1916 with a wild story about a meteorite that dwarfed all others. Over 100 years ...

If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would ...

As the new year dawns, the solar system's two largest planets put on fine shows in the evening sky. Saturn continues to ...

India’s parliament has approved a controversial nuclear energy bill. This is not a routine legal act. It is a political ...