The comet 3I/ATLAS arrived in the solar system with a reputation for being unruly, but its latest trick has stunned even ...

Astronomers are reassessing long-held theories of comet formation after new observations of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS ...

Sometime in 2029, the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch its Comet Interceptor Mission. The Interceptor will wait ...

Satellite breakups and anti-satellite tests have created an alarming amount of debris, a crisis now exacerbated by the rapid expansion of commercial constellations such as SpaceX’s Starlink. The ...

How do planetary systems form and evolve? This is what a new and groundbreaking laboratory at the Southwest Research ...

As the 3I/ATLAS nears its closest distance to Earth, an international team of astronomers now says the space rock may be covered in active, icy cryovolcanoes. If true, the evidence detailed in their ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be showing signs of active eruptions from ice volcanoes on its surface, according to new ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

"During the early solar system's game of cosmic billiards, Earth was struck by a neighbor,” said Dauphas. “It was a lucky shot. Without the moon's steadying influence on our planet's tilt, the climate ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has created a new space science laboratory to enhance our understanding of the origins of ...

Apollo samples provide evidence: Researchers analyzed Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions and, for the first time, ...