Astronomers have discovered icy rocks in the outer solar system that seem to defy the laws of physics, suggesting the ...

Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and observing how light from other objects is shifted. New measurements, however, put ...

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed predicted by standard cosmology. Using highly sensitive data from multiple ...

Commercial spaceflight is booming and looks to go into full-on kaboom stage in the near future, sparking the need for an ever ...

Beyond the local interstellar clouds and their wispy clumps of hydrogen and helium atoms in the form of gas and dust, the ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the key tests of our cosmological understanding. A research team led by ...

Is the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS spinning? That is the question currently dominating online astronomy circles, fueled by reports from amateur observers who claim to have spotted continuous motion.

Nearly 4.5 million years ago, two large, hot stars brushed tantalizingly close to Earth's sun. They left behind a trace in ...

A small, icy traveler from deep space has just threaded its way through the inner Solar System, offering a fleeting but ...

On Earth, knowing the time feels simple. Your phone pings the same second as a GPS satellite and an atomic clock in a lab.

UC Davis engineers have invented a Stirling engine that captures Earth’s escaping heat to generate power from the night sky.