Across the galaxy, astronomers now see that planetary systems fall into four broad classes, and our own solar system, part of the rare Ordered group, is only one of them. At the same time, discoveries ...

An international team of researchers has reevaluated what the scientific community considers the oldest datable record of a ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...

People all over the world are waiting to see what NASA will show tonight. At 9 p.m. Paris time, NASA will release new photos and information about 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious object traveling through our ...

Africa is on a fierce campaign that, if successful, will see the Mercator map replaced with the Equal Earth map on web-based ...

"During the early solar system's game of cosmic billiards, Earth was struck by a neighbor,” said Dauphas. “It was a lucky shot. Without the moon's steadying influence on our planet's tilt, the climate ...

One of the most intriguing events of the month is the perihelion — or closest approach to Earth — of Comet 3I/ATLAS on ...

A different study by scientist Matthew Hopkins at the University of Oxford and colleagues, used a model that focused on the ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

A 2023 astronaut photo shows three dark hills, or mesas, towering above part of the Sahara desert in southern Mauritania. The ...

A new crew is heading to the International Space Station, just in time for Thanksgiving, to continue important research.