The dream of interstellar travel is becoming increasingly real, and Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth, is at ...

Dubai: In a groundbreaking discovery that's reshaping our view of the cosmos, astronomers have pinpointed a remarkably dense ...

Aliens are visiting our solar system. Not little green men, sadly, but natural alien objects—cosmic bodies such as comets and ...

Astronomers think small space rocks from beyond our solar system routinely strike Earth—but proving it isn’t easy ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS was first identified by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), a global network of four ...

With the ever-rising costs of space exploration, scientists and engineers must practice efficient design strategies while ...

Volcanoes act as windows deep into Earth. They help us understand the formation of our planet and the others in our solar ...

An icy object in perfect sync with Neptune reveals new details about planetary migration and unseen bodies far beyond the Kuiper Belt.

Heliostats that harness sunlight by day could help detect asteroids by night, offering the U.S. a scalable planetary defense ...

Finding an exoplanet in a star’s habitable zone always generates interest. Each of these planets has a chance, even if it’s ...

Students in AST 250/251 build sophisticated space physics instruments of their own design  — suiting in bunny suits, booties, ...