A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University ...

On February 14, 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first family portrait of the solar system! [‘On This Day in Space’ ...

Solar storms and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) can disrupt everything from satellites to power grids. A new AI tool, ...

Scientists at the European Space Agency used a laser to communicate with a spacecraft 165 million miles (265 million kilometers) away in deep space for the first time, marking a major step forward in ...

The fate of a comet that was predicted to pass close to Earth remains a mystery five years after its dramatic breakup in the inner solar system.

New infrared observations reveal that the rare interstellar visitor known as comet 3I/ATLAS has dramatically brightened ...

Comet Wierzchoś, also known as C/2024 E1, is rapidly brightening as it approaches its closest point to Earth next week. But ...

No matter your areas of interest, it's likely your newsfeed, whichever one you may use, has been flooded recently with the opinions of so-called Harvard scientists that there's an alien spacecraft ...

Every winter, skiers chase smooth carving turns, reliable snow and that dream run. As the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics 2026 unfold on Earth, it raises a fun question: if the Games ever leave our ...

The interstellar visitor, only the third such object to be discovered passing through our solar system, ignited controversial ...