Earth is the only life-supporting planet in our Solar System. Until now. Today, we're bringing Kepler 22-b into our planetary ...

H anuman is swinging joyfully from vine to vine in the Kishkindha forest when he stops mid-swing. Below him, resting against ...

Perihelion is the point at which an orbiting body is closest to the sun. The word comes from Greek and literally means around (peri) the sun (helios).

A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 ...

Images captured by NASA's Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the sun in ...

I/ATLAS comet is the 3rd-ever object discovered that originated from outside our solar system. It's not a threat, approaches Earth in December 2025.

Discovered on July 1 by the NASA-funded ATLAS telescope in Chile, 3I/ATLAS is only the third confirmed visitor from another ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...

MUSE survey, an international team of astronomers has inspected a nuclear star cluster of the nearby large spiral galaxy ...

K2 Space has quadrupled its valuation in less than a year to $3 billion thanks to its cheaper satellites designed for ...

Mark Matney’s fresh hypothesis suggests that the Star of Bethlehem may have been a bright comet that briefly appeared to ...