The most unsettling space images are not of black holes or distant galaxies, but of stars that look eerily like our own Sun ...

China advances plans for dual solar system boundary missions China has published coordinated papers outlining dual missions ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet," study lead Miki Nakajima, an associate professor in the ...

Starting Jan. 21, Canadians can see a rare celestial event as six planets line up in the evening sky, mostly visible to the ...

The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

It’s a cosmic season in Southern California; look for the unveiling of Griffith Observatory’s Celestial Globe, too.

Decades-old pictures of Pluto’s heart are breaking the Internet again. University of Oxford's Dr Carly Howett explains the science behind the New Horizons mission and that famous 5-billion-kilometre ...

Planet 9 sits at the edge of scientific imagination, promising either an epic expansion of the Solar System or a lesson in ...

The earth (and humanity) would be very different without our smaller red neighbor. In A Nutshell Computer simulations show ...

"Most excitingly, this new idea addresses one of the longstanding habitability problems on Europa and is a good sign for the ...

For centuries composers have attempted to mimic the natural world in music. Antonio Vivaldi, in the early 18th century, musically illustrated "The ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the landscape. Mars is often portrayed as a dry, empty world, but the planet is ...