University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

The trio is a rarity—and when all of its unusual traits are considered together, it is unique.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

Here’s a little spoiler for next month’s Cosmic Calendar: early May will see the return of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. The ...

Solar Orbiter just delivered its most jaw-dropping image yet—an enormous, detailed snapshot of the Sun's blazing outer ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

Studies of the solar system are advancing by leaps and bounds, especially to try to avoid, or at least know about, episodes ...

The ultimate purpose of PUNCH is to use its four instruments — three wide-field imagers (WFI) and a near-field imager (NFI) — ...

PUNCH, a bold new NASA mission, has successfully taken its first images of the Sun’s corona from orbit using four ...

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

Get ready for a celestial treat this weekend! Venus, Saturn, and a crescent Moon will align to form a smiling face in the sky ...

San Antonio-built satellites on mission to stare at the sun, opened their eyes and tested their thrusters for the first time last week.