"Our Sun (Sol) is marked by a black hexagon, and its orbital path is indicated by a grey solid line (top row only). Alpha Centauri's location and path are shown by a yellow star and a solid blue line ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare alignment of seven planets on 28 February when Mercury joins six other planets ... Getty Images) It is not just within our Solar System that planet alignments ...

NASA artist’s conception of a brown dwarf (main) and stock image of the planets in the solar system (inset ... in-10 4 chance is not negligible. In other words, we don't need to look for ...

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

NASA/Preston Dyches Venus and Saturn will be in conjunction, meaning they'll appear closest to each other ... planet. "Uranus and Neptune, two very distant ice giant planets out in our solar ...

An image of the solar system orbiting the Sun is seen at Solaris ... which will let researchers take high-quality images of the Moon and other planets. With all this, Solaris promises to be ...

Around a star just 20 light-years from the Solar System, astronomers have confirmed the existence of what might be a ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has uncovered an immense volcanic hot spot on Jupiter’s moon Io, surpassing any previously recorded ...