Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ambitious mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth is paying off. Just as scientists had hoped, the asteroid is revealing details about the early days of our solar ...

Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant ...

Researchers at the University of Basel have reported a significant step toward replicating photosynthesis in the lab, a process that could one day yield carbon-neutral fuels.

Over four billion years ago, the solar system was a wild and dangerous place. Swirling clouds of dust and gas slowly turned ...

The aurora borealis has been remarkably bright recently. Space weather physicist Tamitha Skov reveals what's going on and how ...

WISPIT 2b, a gas giant forming around a young Sun-like star, has been directly imaged for the first time inside a spectacular ...

A team from Nagoya University in Japan and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) have used a new method to ...

An unusual interstellar visitor speeding through our solar system was recently spotted by the powerful eye of NASA’s James ...