New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three ...

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha ...

A nne Verbiscer, a research professor in the University of Virginia’s astronomy department, is will soon be working with NASA ...

NASA is delaying the launch of the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH ...

Experiments suggest that processes in the interior of the moon could keep it swathed in an atmosphere that should otherwise ...

SpaceX and NASA are set for the launch of the agency’s newest space telescope and solar research mission. A Falcon 9 will ...

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...

President Trump set the U.S. on a path to sending astronauts back to the lunar surface during his first term. Lately he has ...

NASA's Artemis campaign is rapidly advancing the development of Gateway, a space station that will orbit the Moon and serve ...

The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show '3 ...