A paper published this week by doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, probably shrinks the number of ...

Comet 31/ATLAS, a rare interstellar object, may be 7 billion years old and could reveal secrets about the early Milky Way and planetesimal formation processes.

Every year, a few thousand people deploy to live on Antarctic research stations — and go through punishing survival training ...

L ast month, work began on the world’s first space-based gravitational wave detector. The European Space Agency and partner aerospace companies are developing orbiting, detector spacecraft to observe ...

The starlink satellite train is a series of newly launched satellites rising in a straight line before they spread out. Free ...

"Dust devils themselves are difficult to capture in images because they are so short-lived," Ingrid Daubar, a planetary ...

On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, the Johns Hopkins APL-built Parker Solar Probe captured stunning images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. Taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever ...

Parker Solar Probe Goes Where No Other Spacecraft Has Ever Gone, and Gets the Most Detailed Images of Sun The Sun is the centre of the solar system, and also the "apple of the eye" for many ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...