Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

Caltech scientists are developing laser-driven lightsails that could push spacecraft beyond our solar system. Their research ...

The PUNCH mission will also involve creating an artificial total solar eclipse, which will provide an extended, ...

Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year ...

Learn how these advances in instrumentation could provide a better understanding of solar winds and improve space weather ...

Launched in 2016 by the late Stephen Hawking and tech investor Yuri Milner, Breakthrough Starshot aims to send miniature probes to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth. The plan relies ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

Scheduled to launch on Feb. 27, NASA's PUNCH mission could revolutionize space weather forecasts, unify the solar corona and ...

The closest star to Earth is the Sun. In our solar system there are 8 planets including planet Earth. Usually, other planets can only be seen from Earth with a very strong telescope.

The exoplanet, known as GJ 1214 b, was detected by the Hubble Space Telescope and dubbed a "waterworld" by the science ...

Sirius, the Dog Star, is difficult to ignore. Ostentatiously scintillating on the southern horizon right now, the “Searing ...

The system is believed to be traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour (1.93 million kilometers per hour), according to a ...