As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic ...
NASA released new images of 3I/ATLAS, the third comet ever to be discovered in Earth's cosmic neighborhood originating from ...
When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth.
A clear look at the discovery of 40,000 near-Earth asteroids, how scientists track them, and the missions working to keep our ...
It takes light a single day to travel 16 billion miles. The Voyager 1 probe will need a little longer, just 49 years.
That remains just one of the many achievements in Voyager 1’s illustrious resume, the spacecraft currently 15.79 billion ...
A massive solar storm in May 2024 gave scientists an unprecedented look at how Earth’s protective plasma layer collapses ...
Small icy moons may have hidden oceans that briefly boil under thick ice. Changing pressure inside these moons shapes their ...
3I/ATLAS is only the third known interstellar visitor, hence the prefix “3I.” The second known interstellar body, Comet 2I/Borisov, was discovered by the Russian astronomer Gennady Borisov in August ...
Space has a knack for bending our sense of scale. The Moon feels close enough to touch—after all, we see its craters with ...
As this month's string of powerful X-class solar flares sparked brilliant auroras that lit up skies across an unusually wide ...