Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped ...

Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades—and now scientists have shown why. Observations from Earth have shown ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, will pass Earth at a distance of about 273,000 miles, just further than the moon's 238,900-mile ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...

Voyager 2’s visit to Uranus in 1986 occurred just after the planet was slammed by an exceptionally powerful solar outburst.

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A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.

NASA is undergoing another round of layoffs. And once again, it's the space agency's famous Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...

Saturn will undergo a drastic change in the coming months, at least as the planet is seen from Earth. Here's what's going to ...

One of the Fastest-Spinning Stars in the Universe Oct. 30, 2024 — New research in our Milky Way has revealed a neutron star that rotates around its axis at an extremely high speed. It spins 716 ...