A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, will pass Earth at a distance of about 273,000 miles, just further than the moon's 238,900-mile ...

The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on the dark matter which seems to keep galaxies together and rotating with ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, raising questions about Earth ...

The Sun’s influence extends far beyond its blazing surface. The solar wind, a torrent of charged particles, streams through the solar system, shaping planetary atmospheres and space weather. Despite ...

Comets are common in the universe, but not a lot of them are frequent visitors to our solar system. Those that do take the ...

The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk ...

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...