For decades, Uranus baffled scientists because it seemed to have no internal heat. Now, new computer modeling shows the ...

Scientists witness planetary evolution in action as WISPIT 2b emerges within a cosmic nursery hundreds of light-years away.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope are unraveling the mysteries of TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 ...

Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the ...

Cosmic dust, it turns out, isn’t made of miniature rocks. It’s fluff. A comprehensive analysis of data from space missions, ...

NASA is inviting the public to take part in 36 “citizen science” projects that let volunteers contribute to real scientific ...

The aurora borealis is a spectacle of space weather, but solar flares and coronal mass ejections have far more Earthly ...

Astronomers are tracking a newly discovered interstellar visitor called 3I/ATLAS, and early research suggests it may be ...

In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a ...

Our solar system’s third discovered interstellar visitor, comet 3I/Atlas, will dip into the glare of the Sun this week, ...

With a low but notable chance of hitting our moon this asteroid is in the sights of scientists. A city-block-sized asteroid ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...