A distant 'exomoon' the size of Jupiter is changing how we think about the cosmos.

This video explores the key characteristics of each planet within our solar system. Suitable for teaching science at KS1 and ...

For centuries, humans have dreamed about finding a new home among the stars. Earth is the only planet we know that supports ...

A journey through the Solar System reveals how different each world really is, from familiar planets to frozen moons and ...

After examining a meteorite that crashed to Earth in 2024, NASA is uncovering new details about ancient water, the chemical ...

This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. The image was taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). In ...

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

Oh, we humans do love a cleanly defined boundary, don’t we? They make things easier, after all. If we’re trying to categorize something, knowing what labeled bin to put it in is handy. If we’re ...

One year ago, on July 1 2025, astronomers discovered a fascinating new object moving through the Solar System. Detected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), the object was ...

In the latest research, telescope observations of 3I/ATLAS examine its chemical structure and suggest that it took shape in a peripheral region of a relatively calm planetary system ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - Scientists are documenting a planetary system in the Milky Way galaxy that is ...

Black holes about the size of a hydrogen atom could be careening through the solar system unnoticed. But their days of stealth may be numbered. Two teams of researchers propose methods to search for ...