Scientists have analyzed the Parker probe’s first data, giving a peek at what’s to come as the craft moves closer to the sun over the next few years.
With two spacecraft outside the sun’s magnetic bubble, researchers get a new look at the boundary between the sun and its galactic environment.
Voluntary international guidelines for visiting the moon, Mars and other places — and for bringing stuff back to Earth — are overly cautious, scientists say.
New images reveal Hygiea is round, a final criterion for promoting the wee world from asteroid to dwarf planet status.
In 2018, telescopes on Earth and in space identified a never-before-seen kind of storm activity on the ringed planet.
With its gaseous halo and tail, the second discovered interstellar object, 2I/Borisov, looks basically like your run-of-the-mill solar system comet.
A reignited debate over whether a new planet is habitable highlights the difficult science of seeking alien life.
The authors of ‘Imagined Life’ rely on science to sketch out what kind of organisms might exist on exoplanets.
Indian scientists haven’t heard from the Vikram lander for a full lunar day, after they lost contact during the robotic spacecraft’s descent.
Researchers will be able to watch what appears to be an interstellar comet swoop through the solar system for about a year.