A nne Verbiscer, a research professor in the University of Virginia’s astronomy department, is will soon be working with NASA ...

Experiments suggest that processes in the interior of the moon could keep it swathed in an atmosphere that should otherwise ...

Astronomers have been recording the signal for more than four decades, but this is the first time they've nabbed its origin.

New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three ...

A rare celestial alignment was captured at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, where seven planets were visible in a small area ...

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

A newly identified Kuiper Belt trio, possibly only the second of its kind, could provide strong evidence that these distant ...

NASA is delaying the launch of the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to study the sun’s mysteries.

Astronomers have long believed that the swirling disks of gas and dust that form planets around young stars last only about ...

The new appointees include Maria Zuber, an American planetary scientist involved in multiple NASA missions, and Meng Anming, ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has revealed an unexpected spiral structure within the inner ...

The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space, but their mission in interstellar space isn’t over yet ...