Japan's space agency, JAXA, has been knocking it out of the park with small-body exploration missions for decades. They had ...

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Planets around other stars can help answer one of the greatest mysteries: How did we get here? How did the spinning disk of material left behind by our sun’s birth form our planet and its seven ...

Andy Weir discusses his science-fueled novel “Project Hail Mary,” which has been adapted into a film that opens in theaters on Friday. By Katrina Miller Katrina attended a panel featuring the “Project ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS contains water and carbon molecules at levels never before seen in our solar system. This suggests that it formed around an alien star radically different from and much ...

In our latest episode of Lexicon, we sit down with Dr. Lulu Zhao, an assistant professor of climate and space sciences and engineering at the University of Michigan and the lead of NASA’s CLEAR Center ...

A team of scientists has confirmed that the nearby star GJ 887 hosts at least four planets, one of which could be a habitable world — the second closest to our own solar system. RELATED: Animal life ...

AI-generated image of what the system could look like. Image not to scale. Astronomers have just identified a rare cosmic “huddle” of stars. We’re talking three stars, each more massive and hotter ...

The standard story of the origin of our solar system has gone like this: 4.6 billion years ago, a giant cloud of dust hung frozen in space. Then the explosion of a nearby star caused part of that dust ...