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While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...

Bright full moons, dazzling meteor shower displays and remarkable total eclipses will give stargazers plenty of reasons to ...

Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...

Lineups of planets have often attracted attention for their supposed effects on human affairs—and for several days in early January, five solar system bodies are arranged in a n ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

With 3I/ATLAS streaking away from our planet, speculation remains as to whether the interstellar comet is alien or not.

In 2026, there will be journeys to the moon and Mars, new visions of the cosmos and a solar eclipse that might be worth ...

The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...

A colossal Martian volcano defies everything we know about planetary geology. Hidden clues beneath its frozen summit hint at ...