Our Solar System hides worlds of fire and ice, storms that outlast civilizations, and mysteries still beyond human reach. These ten discoveries reveal a universe far stranger than we imagined.

A new University of Michigan study offers one of the most detailed pictures so far of how violent sun storms spread across ...

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the early stages of planet formation around a distant young star, HOPS-315, ...

HD 140283, better known as the Methuselah star, is around 200 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Libra. It is ...

“The Copernican principle is a cornerstone of most of astronomy, it is assumed without question, and plays an important role ...

Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, who will deliver the Royal Irish Academy 2025 Hamilton Lecture, on his lifelong quest to ...

ESA’s Mars orbiters have observed comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar comet ever discovered. The faint, distant ...

Scientists from NASA and Chalmers University have discovered that incompatible substances can mix on Titan’s icy surface, ...

Use cases for smart materials in space exploration keep cropping up everywhere. They are used in everything from antenna ...

In an astonishing feat of gravitational sleuthing, astronomers have found a mysterious, dense blob of invisible matter ...

According to StarWalk, the best time to observe Comet Lemmon is from October 12 (today!) until November 2. The stargazing website predicted it could be the ‘best comet of 2025’. It will be near Earth, ...

Astronomers discover a low-mass dark object through gravitational lensing and multiple radiotelescopes across Earth.