A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the discovery of just the third known interstellar object to visit our solar system ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Though our solar system and the movement of its planets appear relatively sedate, there are many things that could upset the ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive, hidden exoplanet nestled in the dusty disc of a young star—MP Mus—by combining ...

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human ...