When most people imagine Earth's asteroid belt, they picture a dense ring of orbiting rocks, locked in place between Mars and Jupiter. Yet, the truth is far more captivating—and urgent. According to a ...

New research from Rice University shows that Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, played a major role in shaping ...

The gas giant WASP-18b belongs to a class known as ultra-hot Jupiters — giant, searing, gaseous planets that orbit perilously close to their stars. Researchers used a new technique called ...

What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar HOPS-315 in the Orion Molecular Cloud. Guest: Dr ...

When Comet 3I/ATLAS roared into the solar system this summer, it launched a scientific scramble to study what astronomers ...

A rare cosmic visitor, 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object, was discovered in July 2025. This object, on a ...

The space object, named Chiron, is believed to be a piece of rock measuring a whopping 130 miles wide at its broadest point - ...

The hold-down firing of the first stage engines was the final major test of the New Glenn rocket before launch day. Blue ...

An interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS has just passed our sun. Despite online rumours that it’s an alien spaceship, experts ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has argued at length that 3I/ATLAS — the third-ever interstellar object ever detected, currently ...

Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is ...

Harvesting solar energy in orbit and beaming it down to Earth is a decades-old idea. Now, a raft of companies say they could ...