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

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

Astronomers have identified a tiny quasi-moon, 2025 PN7, orbiting near Earth for about 60 years. This 62-foot-wide near-Earth ...

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

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...

“The idea that Ryugu-like objects held on to ice for so long is remarkable,” he added. “It suggests that the building blocks ...

There is a direct link between Earth's crust formation and meteorite impacts influenced by the Milky Way's structure, as ...

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

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

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

Spiral arms are crowded regions of space filled with stars, dust, and gas. As the solar system traveled through them, ...

A high-precision time measurement system based on the radioactive decay of manganese-53 was used to determine the precise age ...