The most striking science photos of the week: including the Perseid meteor shower and glowing underwater wonders.

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...

Our sun is about five times less magnetically active than other sunlike stars—effectively a special case. The reason for this ...

Yet, despite using the JWST's sensitive Near-Infrared Spectrometer, or NIRSpec, astronomers led by Piaulet-Ghorayeb found no ...

A conceptual mission known as "Persephone" could explore Pluto and its moons for 50 years — if it ever gets funded and ...

Outer space is a fascinating place to explore, and mankind has pushed the limits of technology to learn more about our solar ...

NASA has shared new details about 3I/ATLAS. It is an interstellar object moving at 209,000 km/h. Hubble images show it is ...

The formation of Earth is a cosmic tale that stretches back over 4.5 billion years, from the swirling gases and dust of the solar nebula to the planet we know today. But how exactly did Earth come to ...

U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of ...

The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system because it is ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted a gas giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A.

Solar winds, originating from the Sun's corona, are streams of charged particles influencing planets and space weather. These ...