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

When you stream a movie, back up a photo or ask ChatGPT a question, somewhere a data center is working hard—and getting hot.

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming disks around young stars could become the seeds ...

Mysterious spherical droplets in meteorites aren’t just cosmic oddities. They’re evidence of planetary formation.

Could a vagabond giant from the outermost regions of interstellar space be poised on the cusp of sweeping by our cosmic doorstep? Astronomers say yes and they have the data to support it. Using the ...

New research led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has confirmed decades-old theoretical models of magnetic reconnection, the process that releases stored magnetic energy to drive solar flares, ...

A lifelong passion of computers and electricity helped a Lennox newcomer build a solar powered home capable of withstanding ...

PRATUSH is a space payload concept that envisions orbiting the Moon’s far side, the quietest radio environment in the inner ...

The greatest challenge facing astrobiologists is that there is only one planet known to us that has life. Of all the bodies ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS. A remarkable ...

A billion or so years into its evolution, the icy dwarf planet Ceres may have had the right conditions to sustain life, which ...

A tiny digital receiver system based on a compact single-board computer (SBC) about the size of a credit card, could now help us unravel the mysteries of the Cosmic Dawn, when the very first stars ...