New connections discovered between the Sun's photosphere and CI chondrites meteorites, providing clues about the origin of materials.

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of ...

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

The discovery that inert helium can form bonds with iron may reshape our understanding of Earth’s history. Researchers from ...

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

PUNCH, or Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, will study how the sun affects the solar system. The mission will observe the sun’s hot outer atmosphere ... help us understand the universe ...

A decades-old astronomical mystery has finally been solved—an enigmatic X-ray signal emanating from deep space turns out to ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long ...