A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

The space object, named Chiron, is believed to be a piece of rock measuring a whopping 130 miles wide at its broadest point - ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolit ...

For nearly five decades, NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have ventured farther than any other human-made object, pushing ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

While NASA classifies the object as a harmless comet, per Economic Times, Loeb described the matter similar to a “blind date, ...