New research on Comet 67P indicates that its water may be similar to Earth's, contradicting earlier findings by Rosetta's ...

The solar system, long believed to be a relatively stable and isolated system of planets, moons, and distant bodies, may have ...

By doubling the number of known "dark comets," astronomers have been able to split them into two camps depending on their ...

When I asked readers on social media for suggestions about the coolest things they’ve seen in spaceflight during the last 25 ...

For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the ...

NASA's discovery of 14 'dark comets' challenges space science. Blending comet and asteroid traits, these enigmatic objects ...

The research team's simulations indicate a 1 in 100 chance that an interstellar visitor could produce the orbits we see today ...

The Geminids are an astronomical highlight of the year, creating a spectacular show of shooting stars every December.

Researchers used data from NASA's Dawn mission to uncover new evidence of internal organic material reservoirs on Ceres, the ...

The Sun should be capable of eruptions that are a hundred times stronger than the strongest flare ever recorded. This is shown by an analysis of over ...

Named WASP-69 b, the exoplanet is a super-hot gas giant that orbits its host star closely. What captured the astronomer’s ...

The Government unveiled a major action plan on Friday to reach 95 clean energy in the UK by the end of the decade.