Solar System

When you're watching an Earth-sized mass hurtle into a supermassive black hole a billion light-years away, it's easy to forget...

It's a scientist's job to ask the important questions and to try and find the answers, but it's the scientist's kid's job to ask the...

While astronomers are still trying to pin down the existence of Planet Nine lurking somewhere beyond our solar system, scientists...

Step by step, astronomers are growing tantalizingly close to finding the solar system's long-rumored 'Planet Nine' lurking somewhere...

Despite being a small moon orbiting ten times farther from the Sun than Earth, Titan is strikingly similar to Earth: it has a stable,...

The JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Hayabusa2 probe arrived at the asteroid Ryugu this past June, but it's been waiting for...

There's a lot of weird stuff floating around in space, including interstellar grease and at least one asteroid worth about $700...

Water is the key for a lot more than just life in the cosmic scheme of things--as one of the most abundant solvents in the...

On August 12, NASA launched its Parker Solar Probe into space from Cape Canaveral with a little help from a United Launch Alliance...

Most people imagine space as a giant, empty void, but it turns out there's a lot more "stuff" floating around than we expected...

We thought launching convertibles into space with a David Bowie soundtrack was as crazy as it got.We were wrong.A team of...

If renderings showed just how brutal things actually are in space, museums would have to issue warnings for visitors under a certain...

In Dante's Inferno – the first part of The Divine Comedy – the poet describes Hell as a series of nine concentric circles,...

During its final orbits around Saturn, which culminated in a fiery, destructive Grand Finale, Cassini managed to pick up something...

Today marks Earth's aphelion, the point in its orbit when we are farthest from the Sun! If you want to be exact, aphelion occurred...

Like the formation of Earth's Moon, Uranus' radical tilt has been a mystery for decades. The planet is so skewed that its equator sits...

An international cohort of scientists analyzing data from mass spectrometers aboard NASA's Cassini space probe have discovered...

Today, June 27th, 2018, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 closed in on the asteroid Ryugu, where it will aim to collect samples,...

If you're reading this you've probably seen a lunar eclipse before, but as amateur and professional astronomers know, it's not a "seen...

New research into Mars' history may revolutionize our image of the Red Planet, including the ongoing investigation into whether it...