Somewhere around 12,000 light-years from Earth, a star that is slightly smaller and cooler than our Sun did something violent ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered surprising evidence about how enormous “super Jupiter” ...

Scientists believe a dust-filled ring just outside Jupiter acted like a cosmic “planetesimal factory,” producing multiple generations of early space rocks with very different compositions. The ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has sent back a few of the prettiest pictures of Mars seen in years. On its big trip through wide space, the ship flew very close to the Red Planet and took bright blue ...

Pluto has long been one of the most controversial objects in our Solar System. For decades it proudly held the title of the ...

Scientists believe that future human settlements on Mars may rely on metals extracted from asteroids for construction.

The familiar concept of a planetary core, a small, dense metallic heart we take for granted, may be the exception rather than ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a rare world unlike anything in our solar system — a giant planet about the size of Saturn with surprisingly Earth-like temperatures ...

An asteroid named '16 Psyche' has a keen way of keeping scientists on their toes, sending mixed signals for its composition, ...

Not quite halfway through a six-year sojourn through the Solar System, a NASA spacecraft used a close encounter with Mars ...

If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about the day-to-day of school ...

It is hard to imagine a more fitting date for a major astronomical discovery. On Star Wars Day, scientists announced findings that blur the line between George Lucas’s galaxy far, far away and the one ...