Tatooine is known for its harsh desert climate, relentless sandstorms, and scorching heat beneath the blazing light of its twin suns. Kamino is a distant, inhospitable planet, entirely covered by vast ...

University of Arizona researchers have unveiled evidence of romance at the farthest reaches of the solar system: a cosmic ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

A rare parade of planets will light up the night sky throughout January. Six planets will be in alignment for the rest of the ...

The ESA Solar Orbiter has provided a stunning new look at the Sun by combining 25 high-resolution images. This mosaic offers a detailed view of the solar surface, including sunspots and granules, ...

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 ...

The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system ...

Carbon-rich cosmic dust comes from different sources and spreads out into space, where it's necessary for life and for the ...

As the sun geared up to spit a powerful solar flare into space, NASA scientists snapped huge loops of plasma leaping from the sun's surface. These spectacular solar structures, known as coronal ...

Firefly Aerospace's first mission to the moon is poised to launch in the early morning hours on Jan. 15. The company's Blue ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the dynamic process of carbon-rich dust formation around Wolf ...

That's when NASA's Genesis sample return capsule slammed ... oxygen and nitrogen isotopes in chondrite meteorites and inner solar system planetary materials, "we now know that the standard model ...