The Voyager spacecraft, launched by NASA in the 1970s, have embarked on humanity’s most ambitious journey into the depths of ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian atmosphere at a comet-like speed of 170,000 kilometers per hour," NASA ...

Yamaguchi was doing a three-month job in Hiroshima when he headed to work late that fateful day (delayed by forgetting his ID ...

Solar systems mostly keep to themselves. What’s ours is ours and what’s not is not. Stars are simply too far from each ...

At the beginning of the 21st century, science fiction became the genre that benefited most from the rapid development of ...

Captured just days after its discovery, the images offer the clearest view yet of this rare visitor from beyond our solar system.

Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but.

Sculptor—officially labeled NGC 253—is considered a starburst galaxy, one heavy with stellar action. It's located 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere's constellation Sculptor, and ...