Lots of us look up at the night sky with wonderment, asking how humans are able to explore the universe. Tracy Drain, a ...

An international team, including University of Geneva researchers, discovered a super-Earth named TOI-512 b orbiting a star ...

On March 29, a partial solar eclipse will cause a dark shadow over eastern North America — and weather satellites will pick ...

SPHEREx, NASA’s latest astrophysics observatory, has launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket alongside PUNCH, a mission studying solar wind. SPHEREx will create a 3D map of the universe, helping to uncover ...

The seven planets in the system closely orbit their star, so that if TRAPPIST-1 were in place of our sun in the solar system, the planets surrounding it would all be within the orbit of Mercury ...

Light gases like helium hung around in the gas-and-dust nebula that formed the solar system for only a few million years. "It's very much debated how long it took the Earth to form," Olson said.

NEW YORK — Seven planets grace the sky at the end of February in what’s known as a planetary parade, though some will be difficult to spot with the naked eye. These planetary hangouts happen when ...

The Oort Cloud is the name given to a theorized group of potentially trillions of icy objects on the edge of our solar system ... to match the Earth's orbit around the sun.) ...

but teasing out which aspects of Earth's orbit are involved in fluctuations in climate is not an easy task. "Earth's climate is an interconnected system of complex processes, all acting together to ...

After 18 months of eye-in-the-sky secrecy, Chinese scientists have revealed the revolutionary technology behind the world’s first geosynchronous orbit synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite ...

Now, using a powerful NASA supercomputer called "Pleiades," scientists have discovered yet another spiral structure on the edge of our solar system ... out beyond the orbit of Neptune, which ...

2024 YR4 was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) station at Río Hurtado on ... “Because of the uncertainties, the orbit of the asteroid is like the beam of a ...