It will take the most sensitive instruments ever imagined to reveal ripples from the Big Bang, but they could change our understanding of the entire universe.

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 ...

Researchers search for signs of life in the universe by waiting until a planet passes between ... anything within that expanded radius will be engulfed and destroyed. In our own solar system, Mercury, ...

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 ...

Dive into the world of gravity and space with this C++ simulation of our solar system using OpenGL. In this video, explore ...

Dark matter is one of the biggest puzzles in science. Although it makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, it ...

For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast ...

Scientists’ model indicates that dark matter inside gas giants could collapse into black holes detectable by observation.

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered ...

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...