The water that makes up the oceans acted as a key ingredient for the development of life on Earth. However, scientists still ...

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

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

New paper points to the Alpha Centauri triple star system as likely potential source of millions of interstellar asteroids and comets.

Solar panels have gotten so cheap that the plant, born of an old attempt at harnessing the power of the sun, appears to be obsolete.

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

NASA said the system is thought to be moving at least 1.2 million miler per hour, nearly twice as fast as our solar system.

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

After terminating its diversity programs, the space agency is reviewing whether several science committees are complying with ...