Beyond the edge of Neptune, a distant realm of icy debris known as the Kuiper Belt stretches deep into space. This frozen ...

Several ongoing and future missions led or co-led by NASA exploring the cosmos could face serious changes if Congress ...

An international team of astronomers, led by University of Galway, has discovered the likely site of a new planet in ...

The way comets behave in space may seem random, but new research suggests there’s more order behind the chaos than once ...

Our solar system is the only one known to have life inside. While scientists are searching for water in other planets, a new ...

The idea of Earth's destruction has been a source of apprehension and distress for humans. In the news, we often hear about ...

President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget request, if approved by Congress, would kill many of NASA’s plans for robotic ...

The solar system’s largest and smallest planets meet in the evening sky, standing 2° apart shortly after sunset.

Astronomers anticipate an unprecedented view of the solar system as the Rubin Observatory begins to scan millions of hidden ...

This week, uncover the fate of the latest lunar lander to attempt touchdown on the moon’s surface, see a tower of worms, revisit the Dead Sea Scrolls’ age, and more.

You could argue the Earth is not a planet because the ... but their definition would add 200 more planets to our solar system. The pro-Pluto faction, by the way, is dominated by people who were ...

For the first time, they’ve found rare forms of methanol, a simple type of alcohol, in a disk of gas and dust where planets ...