Astronomers have discovered icy rocks in the outer solar system that seem to defy the laws of physics, suggesting the ...

Nearly 4.5 million years ago, two enormous, blazing stars swung close to the solar system. They did not touch the sun, but ...

The waning moon shines close to the king of the planets on Dec. 7. Don't miss Jupiter shining close to the waning gibbous ...

While Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System, on average it spends more time closer to Earth than Venus does.

The new Hubble image shows a compact, bright nucleus wrapped in clouds of gas and dust, which is called the coma ...

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something NASA is calling "space gum?" ...

The image was taken when the exocomet was nearly 178 million miles away from Earth. In its blog describing the new picture, NASA remarked, Because the object comes from outside our solar system, it is ...

For the first time in California, citizen scientists can join the effort to track monarch butterflies thanks to Blu+, a new ...

The only truly amazing aspect of 3I/ATLAS is its origin. As an interstellar comet, it comes from a solar system far beyond our own, offering us a literal snapshot of another stellar neighbourhood. 'We ...

With Trump’s budget knife still poised over NOAA’s climate research operations, international researchers see a reduced role ...

Wildgrid's (@wildgrid_xyz) explanation in a 2023 TikTok demonstrated how heat pumps produce heat even in frigid temperatures.

KEY FINDINGS The shape is unmistakable. The symmetry is unnatural. And the implications lead directly to December 19. A new ...