Astronomers have captured a cosmic butterfly. New images from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a jaw-dropping view of a ...

At the vast edge of the solar system, Pluto has long been perceived as a cold and lonely dwarf planet. However, a recent ...

Traditional theories suggest that Pluto's formation process is similar to that of other celestial bodies in the Kuiper Belt, ...

A detailed study of a cosmic mystery known as "The Accident" has now provided new insight into the formation of clouds on ...

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

Today, the near-Earth asteroid known as Ryugu is bone dry. But new research suggests that the over half mile-long space rock ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

The pilots will have five chances to snag the capsule in midair. Military pilots were unavailable for a mission that required ...

Travel the universe from your seat with our picks from the annual ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

On September 12, the UK Fireball Alliance announced that the search is targeted across a 12-mile stretch of the Scottish ...

The microgrid has other benefits: It's a resilient backup in the event of grid outages—no small matter in an era of ...

“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator ...