The Voyager spacecraft, launched by NASA in the 1970s, have embarked on humanity’s most ambitious journey into the depths of ...

We continue our discussion of surveying for habitable exoplanets by touring our possible option for interstellar probes, dumb and smart, flyby and protracted orbital.

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

Once in space, the Comet Interceptor will travel to the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2 (just like Ariel), meaning 932,000 miles ...

Interstellar comets offer the tantalizing opportunity for us to touch something truly otherworldly,” says the European Space ...

The comet will zip past Mars’s orbit and reach its closest point to the Sun on 29 October 2025, at 1.35 astronomical units.

The comet-like body, designated 3I/ATLAS, is hurtling towards the Sun at a speed of over 60 kilometres per second ...

Far past the familiar boundaries of our solar system, NASA's intrepid Voyager spacecraft are sending back mind-boggling data, revealing a fascinating and intense frontier. While not a literal 'wall of ...

Elio is with his aunt inside of a space center near the movie's beginning, and he sneaks away to a room housing a replica of ...

To reach Earth’s closest star system, Alpha Centauri, scientists are building a laser-powered spacecraft. To pull off ...