When New Horizons flew past Pluto in 2015, NASA expected a cold, cratered fossil at the edge of the solar system. Instead it ...

Pluto was dismissed as a frozen has-been at the edge of the solar system. But when NASA finally got a close look, what they ...

Welcome, . We who love NASA, or at least the idea of NASA, wish you the very best in taking leadership of the great American space agency. You seem to be an agent for change and NASA sorely needs that ...

Space questions everything about what we know about existence and consists of gigantic stars, icy comets and distant worlds ...

We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start ...

It takes light a single day to travel 16 billion miles. The Voyager 1 probe will need a little longer, just 49 years.

For many North Texans, the GM Financial Parade of Lights marks the official start of the holiday season. This Sunday, ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS was first spotted by telescopes in July. Ever since then, it has stirred a furor of excitement and mystery ...

According to Princeton researchers, the classical belt's structure should be understood as consisting of three major components.

I/ATLAS is covered with icy volcanoes that erupted as it came near the Sun. A team of Spanish scientists spotted jets of ice ...

Clyde Tombaugh, who lived from 1906 to 1997, identified the ninth planet on Feb. 18, 1930, from deep sky photographs he took at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Tombaugh went on to start the astronomy ...

Which planet is the furthest from the sun? Some may think it’s Pluto, but it’s actually Neptune. Learn more about this ice giant and how it can help us understand more about planets in our Solar ...