While Loeb is known for making some controversial claims and predictions in the past, he is still a very respected astronomer ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Object 3I/ATLAS is now too far from Earth to aim a telescope at, but prior observations showed some unusual behavior. The anomalous nature of the ...

Using JWST and ALMA data, astronomers have spotted a superlong and narrow 'galactic contrail,' possibly produced by a black ...

The first effort to develop such a craft — a US$100-million project known as Breakthrough Starshot — has ... Many other planetary systems, including the Solar System, have experienced violent and ...

A NASA spacecraft launched seven years ago is set to touch down in the Utah desert on Sunday carrying the largest-ever sample from an asteroid. Osiris-REx collected rocks and debris from the surface ...

Use cases for smart materials in space exploration keep cropping up everywhere. They are used in everything from antenna ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find, announced ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...