The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA's tally of ...

Created by the sun, the protective bubble of the heliosphere shields our solar system from harmful radiation. A new mission ...

Astronomers were fascinated after spotting an object from interstellar space hurtling through the solar system earlier this ...

The known universe is full of shockingly huge things. Here are the largest planets, stars, galaxies, and structures we've ...

Astronomers from the University of Arizona helped detect a baby planet outside of our solar system. Specialized telescopes from Arizona and Chile contributed to the discovery.

Credit: NASA During a total solar eclipse, the bright disk of the Sun is blocked, and the faint outer atmosphere becomes ...

That may be about to change: NASA is preparing a brand new mission that will travel 1 million miles away from Earth in order to map the boundaries of the heliosphere, offering clues to scientists ...

Researchers discovered wild chimps in Africa who consume fermenting fruit as a majority of their diet -- the equivalent of ...

Daniel W.E. Green at the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, suggests that comet SWAN will hover near magnitude of +6, ...

TRAPPIST-1e shows no signs of its first atmosphere, but hints of a secondary one remain. Liquid water could still be possible ...

JWST data hints that Trappist-1e may have an atmosphere. More transits will test if this world could support liquid water. Recent observations with NASA’s advanced JWST telescope have revealed a ...

Amid the season with at least one meteor shower occurring every night, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may become visible to us in early November.