The Parker Solar Probe, designed, built, and operated by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, captured the images during ...

In a historic milestone for space exploration, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has delivered the closest-ever images of the Sun — a blistering 3.8 million miles from its roiling surface. The new images ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

Solar storms may subtly shift your heart rate by influencing heart rate variability and the autonomic nervous system, new ...

The deep-space optical communication link could revolutionize how scientists communicate with spacecraft as they explore the ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

New simulations have narrowed down where the newly discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS likely came from, revealing it could be more than 3 billion years older than the solar system.

A strange interstellar object is racing toward our solar system, and while NASA says it’s a comet, a top Harvard scientist ...

WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...

Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

There's a broad consensus in the scientific community that a follow-up mission to Pluto should be an orbiter, and not a ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...