The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha ...

Astronomers have discovered that billions of comets in an icy shell around the solar system called the Oort Cloud mimic the ...

This Thursday night, for the first time in nearly two-and-a-half years, our planet's faithful companion is going to get fancy and put on a lovely shade of rouge.

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer is gearing up for launch, riding on a SpaceX Falcon 9 as part of the IM-2 mission. This small yet ...

NASA has said Earth will likely be spared by a deadly Big Ben-sized asteroid and predicts it could smash into the Moon ...

"We found evidence for wind, waves, no shortage of sand—a proper, vacation-style beach," said geologist Benjamin Cardenas.

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to monitor a broad spectrum of infrared light emitted over two full rotation periods ...

Previously thought to be defined by simple cloud patterns, NASA's JWST has unveiled the astonishing complexity of SIMP 0136, ...

Unlike diagrams and illustrations ... and it represents the plane of the solar system in which the planets orbit around the Sun," NASA explains. "This is, incidentally, why we sometimes observe ...

On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging camera built by researchers at the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics will blast off to the Moon as part of NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission. This ...