The period of maximum eclipse will occur at 7:12 a.m. EST (1212 GMT) on Feb. 17, according to Time and Date, when the moon ...

Energy is fundamentally important—researchers have linked a lack of reliable energy to poor physical health, poor mental ...

First its rotation slowed between March and May 2017, taking 46 hours to complete a spin where it had once taken only 20 hours. This occurred as the comet neared its closest point to the sun, roughly ...

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...

The fate of a comet that was predicted to pass close to Earth remains a mystery five years after its dramatic breakup in the ...

As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.

Analysis of asteroid Bennu samples suggests life's building blocks formed in frozen outer Solar System, not warm asteroid interiors.

Scientists suggest that the amino acids found on the asteroid Bennu did not require warm, liquid water to form, as previously assumed.

As part of an effort to bring the study of space radiation in-house, SpaceX is now developing its own particle accelerator in Florida.

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

Two Oak Ridge engineers and former presidents of Friends of Oak Ridge National Laboratory have a proposal for saving the NASA plan. They first described their technical solution at the winter meeting ...

Close to the sun, the solar wind, a steady stream of charged particles, accelerates until it cannot turn back. During a record pass about 3.8 million miles above the surface, Parker Solar Probe ...