A mineral that repeatedly turns up on Mars has been found in perhaps the last place on Earth you might...
A test of a powerful new space imaging instrument has given us a gloriously detailed new perspective of the Apollo...
Every now and again, we get a little glimpse of just how far human ingenuity has gone. Quite literally: The...
The Sun has a lot of rhythm and goes through different cycles of activity. The most well-known cycle might be...
The red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 is home to the largest group of roughly Earth-size planets ever found in a single...
A brief burst of high-energy light swept through the solar system on April 15, triggering many space-based instruments, including those...
Our Sun isn’t exactly a serene ball of scorching hot plasma. In fact, it belches out colossal eruptions on a...
Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have detected the first Jupiter-like planet without clouds or haze...
Given all the logistics involved, it’s unlikely that humanity will ever see our way outside the Solar System to colonise...
One of the fluffiest exoplanets we’ve ever found in the Milky Way galaxy is challenging our understanding of how giant...
Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered an interesting extrasolar planetary system consisting...
To us humans, a single Sun feels completely normal, but our Solar System is actually a weird outlier. Most stars...
