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 ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky.

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

Earth. It’s about 10 times more massive than Earth, and orbits in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star 2475 light-years away ...

As astronomers study an exoplanet called K2-18b, conflicting research reveals how difficult it is to find evidence of life ...