According to China's space agency, the government is preparing to test a direct method of planetary defense by sending a ...

Could life exist beyond Earth? This documentary investigates the solar system’s most promising candidates for alien life, from the frozen oceans of Europa to the red deserts of Mars.

On Dec. 17, 2018, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced that 2018 VG18, nicknamed ‘Farout’, ...

Research simulating a solar tree farm within a coastal forest in South Korea found that solar tree structures could preserve 99% of forest cover when compared to a fixed solar farm built in the same ...

NASA explores the Earth-like planet TRAPPIST-1e using the James Webb Space Telescope to search for signs of alien life.

Though this visitor came to us with no name, we’ve given it one: Comet 31/ATLAS. Astronomers have also officially classified ...

Digantara, which is creating a 'Google Map' for the low earth orbit that is buzzing with thousands of satellites, has joined ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Oxford, University of Leeds, and University College London has identified a ...

OSIRIS-REx samples from Bennu contain stardust older than the Sun, preserving clues to the solar system’s earliest history.

Interlune is developing robots to harvest a valuable gas on the lunar surface that could have a big impact on Earth.

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A team of scientists at the Southwest Research Institute, using photography commissioned from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, have discovered a previously unknown moon in our solar system that's in ...