NASA is gearing up to launch the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), a mission aimed at exploring the ...

Dwarf planet 2023 KQ14, Ammonite, has a stable orbit that challenges the hypothesis of the mysterious Planet Nine.

About 4.6 billion years ago, our corner of space was basically just a boring cloud of gas and dust floating […] ...

Scientists discovered that liquid water once flowed on the asteroid that spawned near-Earth asteroid Ryugu more than a ...

The formation of Mercury remains an unsolved mystery. The planet closest to the sun has a disproportionately large metallic ...

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

The discovery, made by a team including researchers at the University of Tokyo, is based on microscopic rock fragments ...

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising to astronomers because most would predict the distant icy worlds to be ...

“The idea that Ryugu-like objects held on to ice for so long is remarkable,” he added. “It suggests that the building blocks ...

NASA is preparing to launch a new observatory that will help scientists better understand space weather and the protective ...

The period known as "cosmic noon," which took place roughly 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, was characterized by the rapid formation of new stars and planetary systems. Naturally, objects ...

Now, finding a young planet like this is a fairly difficult task, as it requires a long and patient hunt for young disk ...