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

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

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space ...

Astronomers say that mysterious interstellar visitors like 'Oumuamua and 3I/ATLAS are the most common large bodies in the ...

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

A space instrument built by the University of Colorado Boulder will launch aboard a NASA spacecraft on Sept. 23 to detect and ...

Space solar panels could provide Europe most of its renewable energy by 2050, study says - Technology could outperform wind and solar power in two to three decades ...

The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought experiment to it, highlighting everything ...

NASA's Voyager 1 launched 48 years ago in September 1977 on a decades-spanning journey to study the cosmos and search for ...

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

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

On Sept. 21-22, a partial solar eclipse will see the moon sweep over the sun's disk, blocking its light over a swathe of the ...