On February 28, all seven planets will align and be visible from Earth, a celestial event last seen in January without ...

Google is launching an AI co-scientist, a new AI system built on Gemini 2.0 designed to aid scientists in creating novel ...

Some are as big as the Statue of Liberty. But these aren’t asteroids from our own solar system– they may have come from an ...

The National Park Service is hosting its annual Death Valley Dark Sky Festival beginning Friday, Feb. 21 through Sunday, Feb.

Also called molecular clouds, they can be massive, spanning hundreds of light-years and forming thousands of stars.

The Einstein Probe was launched in January 2024 to study the high-energy universe, and among its instruments is its ...

A flash of X-ray light has revealed the existence of an odd couple of stars, a massive star and a white dwarf, that shouldn't really exist together.

Over a million interstellar objects larger than 100 meters could be in the outer solar system, originating from Alpha ...

"The data from the termination shock encounter will be a treasure trove for space physicists worldwide who are eager to ...

There are trillions of charged particles – protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter – whizzing around above ...

This film explores the evolution of our understanding of the solar system, highlighting the significant discovery of Uranus by William Herschel in 1781. It discusses how the Voyager 2 spacecraft ...

We typically think of the Oort cloud as scattered ice balls floating far from the sun, yet still tied to it gravitationally.