The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...

The Solar System is the name given to the part of space that surrounds the Sun. Even though it is bigger than anything we can imagine, the Solar System is actually a very tiny part of the universe.

Could the icy moons of our solar system hold life beyond our planet? Keith Cooper looks at how planetary scientists plan to ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Sometimes there are storms where the wind gets really strong, it might rain, or there might be thunder and lightning. Did you ...

Earth is about to see three total solar eclipses in just under two years, with each successive path of totality moving west ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space telescopes and orbiters have been documenting the rare visit. A mysterious ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

Proba-3 is creating artificial solar eclipses in space, giving scientists a steady new way to study the Sun’s inner corona ...

It feels like every week now we're writing a new article about how 3I/ATLAS is not an alien technology. But it's worth ...