A peculiar object that has defied NASA's expectations has been identified in space, which has been labelled as an 'interstellar visitor'. Once again, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has done its ...

The first off-grid solar farm and battery to power a mine site in New South Wales is fully operational, its developer says, supplying an average up to 40 per cent renewable energy with the potential ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from. The origin of the differing tilts in the orbits of the ...

A comet known as 3I/ATLAS made news when it was confirmed to be the 3rd-ever object observed to have originated outside Earth's solar system. Though the object poses no threat to Earth, astronomers ...

A visitor from beyond the stars has caught NASA’s eye. The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, observed between 7 and 15 August, is offering astronomers a rare chance to study material from outside our solar ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered dozens of NASA missions over the past 50 years But RPS is expensive, costing ...

A violent past The first of the three papers, published Aug. 22 in the journal Nature Astronomy, suggests Bennu's ancestor broke apart in a violent collision, after a complicated history. That older ...

For centuries, humans have gazed into the night sky, wondering what lies beyond the planets we know. Each new discovery in the Solar System reshapes our sense of place in the cosmos. Now, astronomers ...

For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast desert—essentially, where there's water. And it turns out that one of the most ...

In a significant achievement, NASA, in collaboration with IBM, has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system capable of predicting violent solar storms up to two hours before they erupt, ...