New infrared observations reveal that the rare interstellar visitor known as comet 3I/ATLAS has dramatically brightened ...

Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, ...

This hyperbolic Oort Cloud comet, on an inbound journey spanning millions of years, reached perihelion, closest position to ...

A solar flare is an extremely bright flash of radiation. It occurs when magnetic energy associated with a sunspot is suddenly ...

Whether you grew up with a poster of the solar system on your bedroom wall or not, you've probably got a specific idea of ...

For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...

We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...

Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond. It was moving at around 68 kilometres per second, just over double Earth&rsquo ...

Behavior might be chalked up to more than just intentional choices.

NASA scientists are suddenly turning their attention to Uranus, a planet long neglected and still largely unexplored.

That community recently came together to observe Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) as it passed through the night sky. Near ...

Coronagraphs are telescopes equipped with an occulting disk to block out the overwhelming radiation emanated from the visible surface of the Sun, along with optical stops and filters that are ...