Welcome to SolarBalls! This channel features entertaining space animations that help you learn about the solar system and the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Milky Way has a dark blob, known as Barnard 68 (B68), which is a Bok globule around 500 light ...

Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...

3I/ATLAS captured the world's attention last month as the comet raced past the Earth, but some believed that it could have ...

We’ve found lots of “habitable” worlds but we don’t know what factors are needed for life. There are lots of reasons to search for planets around other stars—exoplanets. A big one is to find other ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young star flinging heat-formed crystals outward on a cosmic conveyor belt, ...

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

What is the actual speed and direction of our solar system as it moves through the cosmos, and how does this compare to longstanding cosmology models? This is what a recent study published in Physical ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth’s climate, exploring the Solar System, and probing mysteries of the Universe. This year’s budget expires at the end of ...

Scientists at the European Space Agency used a laser to communicate with a spacecraft 165 million miles (265 million kilometers) away in deep space for the first time, marking a major step forward in ...

On July 1, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile, announced the discovery of something truly spectacular: a mysterious object that appeared to ...

ESA’s Proba-3 mission enables long-duration artificial solar eclipses in space, allowing continuous observation of the Sun’s ...