Astronomers have identified a strange new kind of exoplanet that challenges how scientists classify worlds beyond our Solar System. The planet, L 98-59 d, appears to contain a vast ocean of molten ...

Every eleven years, the sun's magnetic field flips. Sunspots—dark, cooler regions on the sun's surface that mark intense ...

While meteors of this size enter Earth's atmosphere two to three times each year, the odds of them passing over a ...

The asteroid Ryugu, millions of miles away from Earth, might not look that exciting. But on it, we now know, lie some of the ...

A tiny stash of asteroid dust may help answer one of science’s oldest questions: how much of life’s chemistry began in space?

A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, ...

Space is a vast and infinitely expansive area with many things we know little about. If we look at how our Solar System moves ...

Astronomers have slammed SpaceX and Reflect Orbital plans for unnaturally brightening skies and disrupting ecosystems.

Hundreds of mysterious objects have appeared in images captured by the Webb space telescope. The curious dots could reshape scientists’ understanding of the cosmos.

T he first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. It was 2018, and the discovery had just ...

Jeff Bezos' company has partnered with researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology to study how to integrate Earth defense capabilit ...

Korea showed off its latest technological advancement in space imaging with high-resolution satellite images taken in ...