NASA is tracking a plane-sized asteroid known as 2025 XM as it hurtles toward Earth’s neighborhood at roughly 9,753 miles per ...

Hot Jupiters, giant planets that circle their stars in just a few days, have long defied simple explanations of how planetary ...

3I/ATLAS has now made its closest approach to the sun and Earth and is now heading back out toward the outer solar system. On ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

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 ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

The moon and sun share top billing in 2026. Kicking off the year's cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts ...

Proba-3 is creating artificial solar eclipses in space, giving scientists a steady new way to study the Sun’s inner corona ...

Among the solar system’s hundreds of known moons, few are as enticing as the handful that scientists believe have a global ocean lurking below their crusty surface. But two of these hidden oceans 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 ...

A video on TikTok in October appeared to show a woman being interviewed by a television reporter about food stamps. The women weren’t real. The conversation never happened. Generated by A.I. The video ...