"The national security establishment has already been doing this for five decades but thought that no one could replicate it, ...

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the ...

A scientist spotted an asteroid hiding in the sun's glare that orbits the sun in just 128 days, making it the second fastest ...

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has gathered significant scientific attention, and soon it will reach its closest point to ...

Scientists found 13 heavy chemical elements polluting the atmosphere of the star named LSPM J0207+3331, which is located ...

I/ATLAS was first spotted by NASA scientists in May this year. Ever since, it has displayed behaviors that are not just ...

Many scientists call Jupiter the architect of the solar system because its immense gravity influenced the orbits of other ...

The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moon, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.

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Portal Space Systems, a Bothell-based startup, aims to harness the power of the sun to propel spacecraft, making it easier to ...

Astronomers can usually spot "planet killer" asteroids long before they approach Earth. But what if they can't?