Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

NASA’s Jupiter Trojan probe has identified the first known contact binary satellite, a rare object formed when two bodies merge into one. The discovery offers new insight into how small objects ...

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

The response came after John Greenewald Jr., an American researcher and ufologist, requested any CIA "assessments, reports, ...

The CIA told Greenewald in a formal response to his FOIA that it will “neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence ...

Advocates for space science research are concerned about job losses and cuts to funding at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight ...

NASA has taken a major step toward one of its most ambitious science goals as it searches for signs of life on planets beyond ...

NASA announced the selection of industry proposals to advance technologies for the agency’s Habitable Worlds Observatory concept.

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth on Dec. 19. Originating from outside our solar system, the comet is not a threat to Earth. While not visible to the naked eye, ...

It may not feel like it, but everything in the universe is in constant motion. Our Sun, with all its planets, orbits the center of the Milky Way, flying through the cosmos at around 450,000 miles per ...