CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Solar System is much more than a collection of planets, moons, comets, and asteroids. It is our home in the cosmos. The Solar System's only ...

As a NASA spacecraft whizzed away from Earth at 40,265 mph, it took a brief moment to look over its robotic shoulder at how far it's traveled. Psyche, a mission and orbiter named after its space ...

On its record-breaking approach to the sun late last year, NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the sun's atmosphere. These newly released images—taken closer to the sun ...

NASA has snapped photos and videos of the two huge asteroids that passed by our planet a few weeks ago. The two asteroids, 2011 UL21 and 2024 MK, zipped past Earth on June 27 and 29, respectively, and ...

The universe is full of spectacular sights, from aurora on Earth and Jupiter to the solar flares that cause them, to distant nebulae and stars captured by JWST in space and the VLT on the ground.

The fate of a comet that was predicted to pass close to Earth remains a mystery five years after its dramatic breakup in the ...

An interstellar comet first spotted passing through our solar system in July is beginning its departure from our corner of the universe — but first it will fly by Earth, and scientists are capturing ...

In a landmark achievement, the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet. About the same mass as Saturn, it was found in a star system about 111 light-years distant. It’s also the ...

NASA's infrared telescope SPHEREx captured stunning images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it exited the solar system.

This discovery has drawn interest from both professional researchers and skywatchers because comets are ancient remnants from the early formation of ...