3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the public and even most of our deep space assets. Its hyperbolic orbit tells us ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, ...

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space ...

The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought experiment to it, highlighting everything ...

Liftoff of the IMAP missions on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is targeted for September 23, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

A space instrument built by the University of Colorado Boulder will launch aboard a NASA spacecraft on Sept. 23 to detect and ...

NASA's Voyager 1 launched 48 years ago in September 1977 on a decades-spanning journey to study the cosmos and search for ...

On Sept. 21-22, a partial solar eclipse will see the moon sweep over the sun's disk, blocking its light over a swathe of the ...

New observations by the Gemini South telescope at Cerro Pachón in Chile revealed that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS' tail is ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

This landmark discovery of the planet – named TWA 7b – which was recently published in the journal Nature, came after an ...

Io isn’t just another moon, it’s the most volcanically active body in the entire solar system. Orbiting Jupiter, Io is ...