Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Astronomers have identified 3I/ATLAS, an ancient, ice-rich interstellar comet potentially older than our solar system.

Jupiter's rapid early growth dramatically reshaped our solar system, scientists now reveal. Its immense gravity acted as a ...

Credit: NASA-JPL-Space Science Institute The frigid conditions on the surface ... could open the door to the discovery of ...

More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping ...

New strategies may soon allow scientists to test dark energy theories within our own solar system, linking cosmic-scale physics to local observation. Science advances through a cycle of proposing ...

The early growth of the gas giant carved rings that formed primitive meteorites and shaped the architecture of the inner ...

Several city departments and the District 4 council office have announced the completion of an art installation channeling ...

The Maya civilization possessed the remarkable ability to forecast solar eclipses with stunning accuracy for over 700 years, using nothing more than careful observation and mathematical genius. A ...

Earth’s magnetosphere, once thought to have a simple electric polarity pattern, has revealed a surprising twist. New ...

Placing data centers in space could pave the way for sustainable computing with unlimited solar energy and free cooling, say ...