The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

Last week NASA announced the "clearest sign of life that we've ever found on Mars". Amazing news, or a "crushing blow" for humanity?

With 274 confirmed moons as of March of 2025, Saturn is the solar system planet with the most natural satellites. By 1789, ...

We like to think that our solar system is eternal, but one day, its very epicenter will die. Our Sun, like all stars, had a ...

For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, the University of Warwick, and the Canary Islands ...

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the public and even most of our deep space assets. Its hyperbolic orbit tells us ...

Three celestial bodies are about to meet up for one night in September in a conjunction that should be widely visible in the U.S. – including Florida.

Scots have a 'very exciting' opportunity to stumble upon meteorite fragments across several locations, according to ...