Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets beyond our solar system, but finding them is incredibly difficult. Unlike ...

Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting very strangely. The star, named Gaia20ehk, was about 11,000 light-years from ...

Explore the Solar System in a way that transcends the average science project. This video showcases the relative sizes of the ...

Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.

Analysis reveals what appears to be a channel of hot, low-density plasma stretching out from our solar system toward distant ...

A small, round piece of asteroid Ryugu (sample #91), called “S-lunar,” contains tiny particles (less than 1 mm) that will allow planetary scientists to study the magnetic signature of the early solar ...

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and ...

Scientists are scrambling to explain why interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is carrying life's chemical building blocks at concentrations never before seen, and it makes its final pass through our cosmic n ...

A comet swept through the solar system carrying a strange chemical recipe — one that has astronomers taking a closer look at what kinds of worlds might form around distant stars ...

Venus and Saturn are due up for a visually striking event known as a planetary conjunction. Here's everything to know about ...