Journey beyond the asteroid belt to explore the solar system's majestic giants and mysterious outer reaches. We break down the science of Jupiter's eternal storm, Saturn's iconic rings, and the frozen ...

Scientists studying the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua have proposed that it may be a fragment from a Pluto-like planet beyond ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

The search for aliens has led astronomers to scour the farthest reaches of the cosmos for signs of life. But a new study suggests that we might not need to look so far from home. According to NASA ...

Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

NASA reveals the true, bizarre reason for the 3I/ATLAS comet's 16.16-hour pulse. Scientists link the interstellar object's ...

And why many scientists are freaked out about the first serious for-profit company moving into the solar geoengineering field.

Solar activity could cause stronger-than-usual auroras, making the northern lights visible in more U.S. regions than usual.

Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November 2026, the probe will be one light-day from Earth.

Eighty years after the founding of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and 55 years after the first Earth Day, humanity faces a growing profusion of existential threats. Most people—including ...

Using specialist equipment, including diffraction glasses, an infrared camera, and UV-sensitive beads, children investigated how light behaves and uncovered the hidden world beyond what the human eye ...