Discovered on July 1 by the NASA-funded ATLAS telescope in Chile, 3I/ATLAS is only the third confirmed visitor from another ...

Earth is the only life-supporting planet in our Solar System. Until now. Today, we're bringing Kepler 22-b into our planetary ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...

A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 ...

Perihelion is the point at which an orbiting body is closest to the sun. The word comes from Greek and literally means around (peri) the sun (helios).

The latest Day of the Devs presentation has just ended. First appearing in 2012, Day of the Devs – which last year became a ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

An idea about the sun’s magnetic field called the terminator model could help predict dangerous space weather more accurately ...

The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 ...

It was a school day afternoon, June 26, 1963. I sort of remember hearing it on the radio (the Mets didn’t televise midweek ...

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

Using NASA's Kepler space telescope, Chinese astronomers have observed a binary star system known as KIC 5623923. As a result ...