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

The Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO) isn’t a new idea. Conceived in the early 2000s, the project aimed to deliver ...

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.

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 will meet up for one night in September in a cosmic conjunction that should be widely visible in the ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...