When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent a faint radio signal into space, they set off a world-first ...

The discovery of the Kuiper Belt fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the solar system's architecture and population, revealing a far larger and more complex system than previously imagined.

Science explains the world with numbers and experiments, while astrology speaks through stars and symbols. One seeks proof; ...

In a cosmic twist worthy of sci-fi, new research from Curtin University reveals that Earth’s crust may carry the fingerprints ...

I'm a planetary scientist who was born the year of Sputnik's launch. Over the course of my 40-year career, I've witnessed not one but at least five separate revolutions that fundamentally transformed ...

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

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

In the late 1980s, scientists realized they could understand the interior properties of the sun by observing the sound waves ...

But over the summer, 3I/ATLAS, has plunged toward the inner solar system—and the fireworks show has begun in earnest. When ...

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

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

Three celestial bodies are preparing to meet up for one night in September in a cosmic conjunction that should be widely ...