We often focus on space observatories that peer beyond Earth. But the vast majority of satellites stare right back at us.

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

The national traveling exhibition explores space and astronomy, covering topics such as the search for habitable worlds.

New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...

The first solar eclipse of the year will happen tomorrow. No one will see a total eclipse, but partial views will be visible ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

The smallest disk identified, meanwhile, stretched to just 0.6 AU – closer to the star than the Earth is to the Sun.

A new 28-minute film explores the medical, social, political and ethical challenges of parenthood and child-rearing that ...

Using advanced simulations, the researchers propose that these planets emerge from distinct rings of planetesimals, providing fresh insight into planetary evolution beyond our solar system.

PUNCH, or Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, will study how the sun affects the solar system. The mission ... understand the sun that keeps our planet alive.” ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s history. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Jonathan O’Callaghan reported on an ...

New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three separate bodies orbiting one another in a complex triad. This rare ...