A space instrument built by the University of Colorado Boulder will launch aboard a NASA spacecraft on Sept. 23 to detect and ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured a solar-system-size corona around a distant supermassive black hole, ...

Explore the true scale of the Solar System in this video, which illustrates the relative sizes of the planets and their ...

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

The Voyager spacecraft, on a decades-long journey of exploration, have made an unusual discovery at the edge of our solar system. They’ve detected a layer of hot plasma at the solar system’s boundary, ...

Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO, the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, and the ...

Riding alongside IMAP, NOAA's SWFO-L1 will serve as a dedicated solar alert system, monitoring space weather and energetic ...

A recent announcement from astronomers has everyone buzzing! A "visitor" has entered the solar system, and can you guess what ...

Astronomers have been racing to get a better look at 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious object with interstellar origins that has defied ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, ...

Spacetime ripples from a black hole collision across the cosmos have confirmed weird aspects of black hole physics ...

NASA research reveals that the heliosphere, our solar system's protective bubble, may resemble a deflated croissant rather than a comet. This new mode ...