Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft embarked on a Grand Tour of the outer solar system, a feat made ...

How do you explore the interior of a planet without ever touching down on it? Start by watching the way the planet spins, then measure how your spacecraft orbits it — very, very carefully. This is ...

NASA scientists have discovered an electric field encompassing Earth’s atmosphere that is as “fundamental” as gravity — and could even give clues about possible life on other planets. A team of NASA ...

The newly discovered world is called GJ 251c and it is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away.

Jupiter was shaping Earth's fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early solar system that kept its ...

Astronomers observe for the first time the actual motion of spirals in a protoplanetary disk, revealing gravitational ...

The rare interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is under intense scrutiny as it passes through the solar system. Spacecraft like Hera, ...

Satellites detected a strange gravity signal off the coast of Africa nearly 20 years ago, suggesting something unusual had happened deep within the planet to distort its gravitational field, according ...

The Indian Ocean Geoid Low ranks as the largest negative "gravity hole" anomaly on Earth, which is why the “thumbprint” jumps ...

The destroyed planet has spewed material onto the white dwarf's surface, with astronomers detecting 13 different elements ...

Shedding light on the gravity of the situation. Most people do not realize that many of the stars and heavenly bodies they see in the sky no longer exist. In fact, many have ceased to exist for ...