The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent back one of the most detailed images of our star so far on its ...

While Earth's slowdown is not noticeable on human timescales, it's enough to work significant changes over eons. One of those ...

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

After five years in deep space, Solar Orbiter has again amazed scientists with an unprecedented high-resolution image of the ...

Don Pettit has returned to Earth after a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station, wrapping up a journey ...

About 140 light-years from Earth, there is a planet that is rapidly disintegrating. The crumbling world is roughly the mass [ ...

The roar of rocket engines, the trembling earth beneath your feet, and a pillar of fire slicing through the sky—few human ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

The debate about Earth’s shape dates back to ancient civilization, according to scientists like Dr. James Garvin. The Greeks ...

The astronomers spotted the planet using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an MIT-led mission that ...

NASA’s PUNCH mission just took a big step forward with the first images from its solar-observing instruments, revealing the ...