Space has a way of making scientists throw out their textbooks. Just when astronomers think they understand how the universe ...

What's the best way to reveal what an exoplanet is made of? Wait for it to get gravitationally shredded and engulfed by its ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope captured an amazing view of the planet Uranus, its rings and moons. Webb's ...

While NASA has confirmed that 3I/ATLAS poses no threat to Earth, the mystery deepens as the comet prepares for its closest ...

WASP-121b is unlike anything in our Solar System. This giant planet orbits its star so closely that it completes a full orbit in just 30.5 hours. Its dayside reaches a scorching 3000°C, while the ...

It's an evocative idea that has long bedeviled scientists: a huge and mysterious planet is lurking in the darkness at the edge of our solar system, evading all our efforts to spot it. Some astronomers ...

Imagine a fiery wall of gas reaching temperatures up to 50,000 K (equivalent to 90,000 °F). Thankfully, this barrier is not located near a star or at the ...

"This forms a giant bubble around the Sun and its planets, known as the heliosphere ... on our first glimpse outside the Solar System. "An observation by Voyager 2's magnetic field instrument confirms ...

Astronomers have revealed that the real center of our solar system isn't the sun. Gravity is playing a part in everything. The barycenter is the center.

The High Resolution Stereo Imaging camera onboard ESA’s Mars Express captured this frosty scene in the Ultimi Scopuli region ...

Scientists are studying tiny grains of space dust found in Arctic ice to learn how Earth’s climate has changed over time.