The deep-space optical communication link could revolutionize how scientists communicate with spacecraft as they explore the ...

A strange interstellar object is racing toward our solar system, and while NASA says it’s a comet, a top Harvard scientist ...

Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river drainage systems. Water is the biosphere's lifeblood, and without it, Earth ...

How big would our Solar System be if the Sun was an eleven-inch football/soccer ball? Alex and Jonathan set out to find the ...

In an exciting and rare new discovery, astronomers recently confirmed that a third known interstellar object has entered our solar system. The interstellar comet, dubbed "3I/ATLAS", was initially ...

There's a broad consensus in the scientific community that a follow-up mission to Pluto should be an orbiter, and not a ...

In the wee hours of July 18th, Mercury, our planet of communication and exchange, lip service and slander, poetry and sexting ...

Clean-energy projects have new deadlines for federal tax credits and limits on foreign parts, taking aim at California’s ...

The 'helicity barrier' has been directly confirmed, offering new insights into the heating and formation of the solar wind.

Volcanic planets with static crusts, called Ignan Earths, can maintain liquid oceans and temperate climates favorable to life.

Now, NASA has released remarkable video captured during the historic flyby, offering the closest views of the sun ever ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has set yet another record by taking the closest images of the Sun anyone has ever seen.