Solar Orbiter began routine science operations in 2021 and has since looped ever closer to the Sun, stealing bits of speed ...

The planet orbits its host star in just 30.5 hours, losing a mass of material roughly equal to Mount Everest each time ...

The debate about Earth’s shape dates back to ancient civilization, according to scientists like Dr. James Garvin. The Greeks and Egyptians documented evidence of the world’s roundness. And this ...

View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.

Discover interesting facts about Saturn, its rings and whether it could contain extraterrestrial life.

The European Space Agency (ESA)'s Solar Orbiter mission has obtained a stunning high-res image of the sun's upper atmosphere.

NASA has detected a strange, unidentified object orbiting the Sun, sparking intrigue and speculation across the scientific ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

A Nasa spacecraft has captured its first detailed images of an unexplored asteroid, revealing a bizarrely shaped 150-million-year-old space rock. The asteroid Donaldjohanson, located in the main ...