"A three-body problem is extremely complicated. Now we're dealing with four: the sun, Earth, the moon and Mars. The heavy ...

The planets of our solar system aren't randomly scattered. They all orbit in a near perfect, flat disc. The reason for this ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the ...

A radio signal has been detected, pointing to the possible existence of a magnetic field on YZ Ceti b, an exoplanet 12 ...

Tracking the first astronauts’ visit to Mars won’t be as simple as watching a clock or marking days off of a calendar. Thanks ...

Scientists say that Mars may need its own time zone as they calculate that clocks on the red planet will tick 477 ...

Hakuto-r captures a rare “terrestrial sunrise” during a total eclipse just before crashing into the Moon, revealing the ...

The International Space Station (ISS) has been orbiting Earth for the last quarter of a century. But it was only this week ...

Seventy light-years from Earth, a star called Kappa Tucanae A harbors one of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries: dust so ...

I/ATLAS is covered with icy volcanoes that erupted as it came near the Sun. A team of Spanish scientists spotted jets of ice ...

As the night grows long and the winter solstice approaches, there’s a host of astronomical events to watch out for, including ...

A full moon at its closest point to Earth: December opens this week with a full moon, dubbed the “Cold Moon,” that also ...