There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and probing mysteries of the Universe.

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured a solar-system-size corona around a distant supermassive black hole, ...

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

A high-precision time measurement system based on the radioactive decay of manganese-53 was used to determine the precise age ...

But over the summer, 3I/ATLAS, has plunged toward the inner solar system—and the fireworks show has begun in earnest. When ...

"3I/ATLAS achieves perihelion on the opposite side of the Sun relative to Earth. This could be intentional to avoid detailed observations from Earth-based telescopes when the object is brightest or ...

Astronomer and Pluto mission leader S. Alan Stern explores how the field has transformed during his decades-long career.

There's some bizarre action going on with 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar object which some have claimed could be an 'alien threat ...

“The most likely trigger was an impact on a larger asteroid parent of Ryugu, which fractured the rock and melted buried ice, ...

One of the worlds in the TRAPPIST-1 system, a mere 40 light-years away, just might be clad in a life-supporting atmosphere.

The comet is known as 3I-Atlas and is currently 238 million miles from Earth. According to NASA, the comet is expected to ...