As a result, the Earth is not currently orbiting a point inside the Sun, as the barycenter is outside of it. We are orbiting ...

Something incredibly strange is happening in our cosmic neighborhood: a mysterious gravitational disturbance is hurtling ...

Moving from the outer layer inward, the first layer is the corona — the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere that is ...

New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar ...

The way comets behave in space may seem random, but new research suggests there’s more order behind the chaos than once ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has notched another milestone, capturing a direct image of one of the coldest and oldest known ...

The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky.

Earth’s tilt is what causes the seasons; in the summer, when our planet’s pole is tipped toward the sun, the days are longer, ...

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

Earth’s companion has allowed astronomers to define lunar cycles, navigate without technology, and understand celestial ...

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...