Using the European Space Agency’s Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite (CHEOPS) telescope, a team of astronomers ...

An oddly tilted object beyond Neptune moves in perfect sync, one orbit for every ten of Neptune’s, and scientists are intrigued.

Time travel is one of the hallmarks of science fiction, but many time-travel-based movies have plots that leave one with a headache just thinking about them. What if you could travel into the past, ...

Our tiny blue planet has been immortalized in breathtaking images captured from the far reaches of space. These photographs, taken by probes like Voyager 1 and Cassini, offer a humbling view of our ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre object in the outer solar system, 2020 VN40, that dances to Neptune’s gravitational beat in a never-before-seen rhythm. It’s the first of its kind, orbiting the ...

The answers to those questions depend on how we define the death of the solar system.

A new analysis of decades' worth of observations has revealed that Uranus does indeed emit more heat than it receives from ...

For millennia, astronomers thought Uranus was no more than a distant star. It wasn’t until the late 18th century that Uranus was universally accepted as a planet. To this day, the ringed, blue world ...

Aerial photos show ‘the human planet’—in all its beauty and pain A photographer spent years hanging from a paraglider, and later operating drones, to get amazing views of the Earth.

The blood trail led out of the room and into the hallway. With half trepidation, half glee I tiptoed over the wide red smear, ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have, for the first time, observed the formation of a new solar system.

Alyssa Carson from Baton Rouge already goes by the callsign 'NASA Blueberry' - despite not yet having an affiliation with NASA ...