For those that like to star gaze and watch the moon, there is an event happening early Tuesday morning worth getting up for ...

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

Icy moons circling the outer planets may be far more dynamic—and explosive—than they appear. New research suggests that when ...

A star thousands of times larger than the Sun just underwent a dramatic transformation that's a prelude to catastrophe.

There have been plenty of attempts to resolve the "Hubble Tension" in cosmology. This feature describes how one of the most important variables in cosmology, the expansion of the universe, takes on ...

Scientists have long known many objects floating at the solar system's outer edges resemble snowmen, but the reasons why were never clear. Now, a student at Michigan State University has created the ...

Can NASA and Elon Musk get us to Mars and beyond?

Active small bodies—including comets, active asteroids, icy minor planets, and transitional objects—occupy a unique position in planetary science. As ...

SpaceX already has over 10,000 Starlink satellites in space and the majority are version 2 mini. They already have 10-15 Kilowatts of electricity each. They ...

Fresh observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how vivid auroras surge through Uranus’s tilted magnetic field ...

O n the outer edge of our solar system, past Neptune’s orbit, lies the Kuiper Belt, a wide band of small bodies drifting ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form. Across our galaxy, astronomers routinely observe a ...