NASA’s most serious search for extraterrestrial life isn’t focused on distant galaxies — it’s aimed at the outer solar system. Several icy moons are believed to hide vast underground oceans, warmed by ...

Recently, scientists discovered the fastest-spinning large asteroid in the solar system.It’s about the length of eight football fields — but it fully rotates every two minutes, or even a little faster ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four massive but extremely low-density worlds orbiting the star appear to be ...

Decades of reliability and major savings—despite high up-front costs—suggest a future for geothermal, an energy source that ...

A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the origins of the chemistry of life.

Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) fragmented after its October 2025 solar approach, with telescope observations documenting multiple ...

Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led ...

The candidate planet, known as HD 137010 b, orbits a sun-like star and is estimated to be slightly larger than Earth ...

During a close approach to the Sun, the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter watched that tipping point unfold in unusually ...

NASA researchers show that artificial intelligence can anticipate solar flare buildups by tracking subtle changes across the ...

A rare disruption like a major solar storm could overwhelm Earth's satellite system and trigger a debris-producing disaster ...

Some 5 billion years from now, the Sun will expand and become a red giant. And Earth might be just in the way... If humans ...