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

The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the ...

Called SPHEREx, and set for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base no sooner than Tuesday night, ...

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.

PUNCH will watch the how the Sun's corona births solar wind disturbances that spread across the full scope of the inner solar ...

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 ...

This Friday, all seven of the other planets in our solar system will be visible in the night sky. This rare celestial event, ...

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 ...