A mysterious interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS is about to make its closest approach to Earth in December 2025. Here's ...

Could the world of our solar system arguably be home to one of the most fascinating discoveries, which could be hiding less ...

For decades, school posters and science museum displays have grouped Uranus and Neptune together as “ice giants,” a tidy ...

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...

Astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus and hundreds of moons around Saturn over the past year, and there may be many ...

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 ...

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever ...

The FLAMINGO super simulation maps the universe from its earliest moments but finds galaxies cluster less than cosmological ...

Two rare cosmic collisions around the young star Fomalhaut were caught by space telescopes, offering new clues about how planets form.

A small, icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus is one of the prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system ...

For decades, researchers have been studying the formation of rings around planets like Saturn in an attempt to understand what criteria have to be met in order to make and sustain these rings. It was ...