An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

On February 17, 2026, an annular solar eclipse occurred, offering a spectacular view of the “ring of fire” in the sky. The European Space Agency (ESA) captured this rare cosmic event from space ...

NASA has always made it a point to encourage us citizen scientists to lend them a hand. Right now, they could really use your ...

Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered a compact binary system consisting of two white dwarfs in the center of a nearby globular cluster designated NGC 6397. The finding was ...

A new low-power sensor node framework combines sensing and machine learning, with the potential to enhance real-time environmental monitoring while optimizing energy efficiency.

HELSINKI — China has published coordinated papers outlining dual missions to the solar system’s edge, suggesting the long-studied project is nearing formal approval. A lead paper on the design and key ...

Far from the Sun’s heat, orbiting the outer planets of the solar system, are moons with oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces. Keith Cooper finds out how planetary scientists are ...

Take a look at the announcement trailer for Launch Window, a single-player, physics-based automation game where you establish supply chains across an entire solar system using Newtonian orbital ...

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Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space telescopes and orbiters have been documenting the rare visit. A mysterious ...

The Kuiper belt, a disc of icy rocks on the outermost edges of the solar system, seems to have more structure than we thought. In 2011, researchers found a cluster of objects there on similar orbits ...