The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

Last week, the European Space Agency (ESA) gave the asteroid a 1.3 per cent chance of hitting the Earth on Dec. 22, 2032.

In this series, we cover provocative questions in astronomy. This week: the mysterious extragalactic signals known as Fast ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

and the gravity assist of a hundred Yuri Milners, we may never encounter an alien intelligence. On the other hand, the first intimation of life from a distant planet feels thrillingly close.

New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...

For 366 days, six analog astronauts lived and worked in a sealed environment in Russia, an Earth-based stand-in for ...

Scientists have simulated what would happen if asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide space rock, were to collide with Earth in ...

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

The powerful Webb with its incredible sensitivity observed dust grains the size of bacteria, which will eventually coalesce ...

For the first time, astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought ...

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...