Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

You should never watch a partial or annular solar eclipse with the naked eye. A solar eclipse is a beautiful ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

The solar array isn’t the only plan China has for space research—it also plans to reach the Moon and build an International ...

This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

Following a successful launch in the early hours of Wednesday morning (12 March 2025) U.K. time, the PUNCH spacecraft are ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision ...

As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital stations tonight (March 11) at ...

A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...