Called 3I/ATLAS, the comet is only the third of its kind known to astronomers, and it’s likely been heading our way for billions of years, carrying pristine material from another star system ...

Any quakes, or even rumbles from meteorite impacts, propagate outward from their point of origin, bouncing around inside a planet or moon or star before stilling to quietness. The way they travel ...

Earth is so far the only known planet on which life exists—with liquid water and a stable atmosphere. However, the conditions were not conducive to life when it formed. The gas-dust cloud from which ...

Scientists have developed a new technique that could help them understand "polka dot" stars using the transits of exoplanets.

The exoplanet is the first confirmed detection of a planet in a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk, a disk that contains ...

REx, NASA's first asteroid sample return mission, reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, ...

Two very different asteroid families may share the same ancient roots, linked by a rare mineral fingerprint and revealed ...

Using a cutting-edge adaptive optics system developed at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, a growing planet ...

NASA has launched Surya, its new heliophysics artificial intelligence foundation model to empower solar scientists with tools ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are helping to lead planning efforts for NASA’s next major space telescope ...

Asteroids have long been described as the leftover pieces from the solar system’s early construction. They are like the ...