In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

Their discovery showed that even tucked away in our innards – in the walls of our stomachs, subjected to vinegar-like pH ...

Overnight, on March 13-14, 2025, the full moon will experience a total lunar eclipse that will be visible across the night ...

"It’s a really exciting find — Barnard’s Star is our cosmic neighbor, and yet we know so little about it," Ritvik Basant, an ...

A new study says space may become more littered with debris as climate change lessens nature's way of cleaning it up ...

A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy. Using ...

Exciting new research suggests there are four miniature planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, each thought to be just 20 to 30% ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...