The idea of a hidden moon quietly orbiting our planet conjures images of celestial mystery and intrigue. As space exploration ...

Astronomers believe they've discovered a spiral structure inside the Oort cloud that surrounds our solar system.

Commonly called a planetary parade or alignment, this event happens when several planets appear close together in the sky ...

Using a NASA supercomputer to run models, researchers led by SwRI astronomer David Nesvorny now believe that the Inner Oort cloud looks like a spiral disk, around 0.24 light-years across, with two ...

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.

SUIT has captured a solar flare ‘kernel’ in the photosphere and chromosphere, recording images in the near-ultraviolet (NUV) ...

BAE Systems (LON: BA) has been selected to build the spacecraft bus for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) upcoming Space Weather Next L1 Series mission. The satellite will ...

The satellite will serve as an eventual successor to the Space Weather Follow-On L1 (SWFO-L1) mission, which is scheduled to launch this year. The mission will provide valuable data to NOAA’s Space ...

In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough ...

Astronomers have unlocked a new way to explore alien worlds by mapping the 3D structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the ...

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar ...