The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on – electric grids, aviation and telecommunications – are all vulnerable to the same threat: space weather. Space ...

A renowned physicist believes he's cracked the mystery of where a giant unidentified object hurtling through our solar system ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

In our analysis this week, we look at how NASA's proposed budget would slash the agency's science division by nearly 50%.

Mars has lost immense amounts of water over it lifetime, and scientists aren't sure exactly how. New research hints that the ...

NASA's leadership change comes at a pivotal moment for the agency, which is already bracing for potentially severe funding ...

What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but. The object’s trajectory revealed it to be a much rarer visitor than first ...

The comet was identified as interstellar due to its highly eccentric hyperbolic orbit, which is unlike the elliptical orbits of native Solar System objects.

You can pick up Pierce Brown’s Red Rising book series for cheap right now, thanks to Amazon's "buy 2, get 1 free" sale for ...

If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there.

NASA has discovered the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas, located 4.5 au from the Sun, offering a rare glimpse into celestial ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...