Astronomers have found signs that the small icy world Chiron, orbiting between Saturn and Uranus, may be forming a new ring ...

Newly unveiled images of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS have revealed a spectacular cosmic event, a massive jet of gas and ...

Many scholars worry that U.S. backsliding will lead other countries to reduce their climate commitments, and some recent ...

Ten years after the first detection of gravitational waves, scientists have captured the clearest signal yet — and it confirms one of Stephen Hawking’s most famous predictions. Using the upgraded LIGO ...

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed ...

Despite it’s comparative size to our star, it’s still the least massive object ever detected using gravitational lensing.

Analysis of a massive wooden monument has uncovered new secrets of Cahokia, America’s greatest lost civilization.

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

The Chinese are at it again! Yangwang’s U9 Xtreme, a 3,000-hp electric beast, just did the impossible. It smashed the ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...

In April 2021, NASA awarded Elon Musk's company a $2.9 billion contract to provide the first crewed lunar lander for the ...

Scientists reexamining data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have uncovered exciting new evidence from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. The spacecraft detected complex organic molecules being blasted into ...