The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact configuration and later underwent a violent reshuffling that scattered them to ...

3I/ATLAS has now made its closest approach to the sun and Earth and is now heading back out toward the outer solar system. On ...

Jupiter is a massive, terrifying planet. Despite being studied for centuries and even visited by nine space probes in the ...

The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...

However, the mechanism that has been thought to explain how that stardust disperses has now been shown to be flawed, and the team that made the discovery doesn’t have a coherent alternative to offer ...

European regulators issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive grounding specific Airbus A319, A320, and A321 aircraft after an "uncommanded and limited pitch down" incident on a JetBlue flight, ...

Astronomers have been treated to a stunning fireworks display from around a young star called The events, detected in 2004 ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...

The earlier two were ‘Oumuamua, discovered in 2017, and 2I/Borisov, found in 2019. For scientists, 3I/ATLAS is important because it gives a rare chance to study material from another star system ...

Hubble reveals the largest planet-forming disk ever seen, Dracula's Chivito, showing a chaotic and uneven environment around ...