A star with a mass similar to our Sun passing within 10,000 astronomical units could disturb Oort Cloud, which is located far ...

A field star drifting within 10,000 astronomical units may be enough. This could rattle the Oort Cloud, the icy shell at the ...

The White House bid to terminate NASA’s fantastical flights of exploration “across the solar system” threatens to explode ...

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

The next waypoint on Psyche's voyage will be a flyby of Mars in May 2026. Officials expect Psyche to keep that date, which is ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like this before. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.

Gravitational assists are an emblematic example of why space travel is hard —it is exactly rocket science, after all. Gravity ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle ...

NASA launched two 12-inch gold-plated copper disks filled with the sounds of children's laughter, heartbeats, and bird calls.

Faculty of Physics, together with colleagues from Poland and other countries, have identified an exoplanet—a gas giant ...

U ranus is a very weird planet, and it turns out that there is a newly discovered oddity to add to its already extensive list. Astronomers used Hubble to study the interactions between the planet's ...