Sir James Jeans, one of the world’s top mathematicians and an influential physicist and astronomer at the time, advanced his tidal hypothesis of planet formation in 1916. According to this theory, ...

WISPIT 2b was first detected using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Spectro-Polarimetric ...

Astronaut Don Pettit captured a stunning video from the ISS of a SpaceX Starlink satellite train streaking over Earth's ...

An interstellar visitor is speeding through the solar system, and within weeks, astronomers hope to learn whether it's a natural wanderer or something far more extraordinary. The ...

One of the most notable properties of the giant planets in our solar system—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune—are the ...

The Orionids is predicted to peak on the evening of Oct. 20 and the morning of Oct. 21. The meteor shower is noted for its ...

One survey analyzed the effect of Starlink satellite emissions on over 76 million radio telescope missions. It found that ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) announces the release of its annual omnibus solicitation for basic and ...

If 3I/ATLAS is a naturally occurring comet, its close approach to the Sun could cause it to break apart into fragments. Comets commonly disintegrate due to solar heating, gravitational tidal forces, ...

This is a beautiful week for all astrological signs as Pluto retrograde ends and the planet of love enters one of its ...

Cha 1107-7626 is estimated to be about one to two million years old — extremely young by astronomical standards.

As strange interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS approach with mysterious signals, Harvard scientists hypothesise a potential ...