A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

Shrock Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at MIT. "That now applies to the outer solar system planets ... NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. "Bennu looks a lot like Ryugu, and we're eagerly ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

Barnard's Star is a red dwarf and our closest single star to Earth, other than the stars of the Alpha Centauri system ... future to look for distant planets that may have Earth-like features ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

An Oxford study suggests Earth’s water may be native, challenging the idea that asteroids brought water to Earth after the ...

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

Scientists have discovered an exoplanet 140 light-years away that's rapidly disintegrating as it orbits its star every 30 ...

The find shines light on how galaxies begin to turn gas and dust "into stars and planets," said astrophysicist Blakesley ...

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests a planet in a faraway solar system was consumed by a star by hurling ...

Lucian of Samosatam was probably the first to write about travel to outer space and aliens in his 160 AD work: "A True Story" ...