Our solar system is an undeniably fascinating place, featuring an assortment of celestial oddities and wonders.…

NASA has worked hard to prevent microbes from hitching rides on our spacecraft and spreading around the solar…

Some of the most distant rocks in our solar system act in a way that suggests there’s some massive object out there…

New Horizons mission scientists have released the first peer-reviewed results from their study of 2014 MU69,…

Introducing Hippocamp—the smallest of Neptune’s seven inner moons. The recently discovered moon likely formed from a…

A team of astronomers has discovered the most extreme trans-Neptunian object in the outer reaches of the Solar…

Scientists have learned more about ‘Oumuamua, the hunk of matter that is the first known interstellar object to ever…

Two landers from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have successfully touched down on the Ryugu asteroid…

The Parker Solar Probe blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Sunday, setting itself on…

By meticulously stitching together photos taken from two cameras aboard the New Horizons spacecraft, a team of…

Silly fringe theories about Planet X—an imagined planet typically named Nibiru that is on course to hit or pass by…

You may think you know what a planet is, but celestial bodies often refuse to fully comply with our artificial human…

If you, like me, are tired of this world—these people—tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives, Google now…

Beyond Neptune sits one of the stranger dwarf planets, Haumea. This icy rock receives its flattened dinosaur egg…

If you made a building out of bricks and cinderblocks, then hundreds of years later you’d expect it to still be,…

On October 14, 2014, our Sun let out a great big burp, a coronal mass ejection that swept through the Solar System…

Most asteroids orbit the Sun in a counterclockwise fashion, but a newly-discovered object nicknamed Bee-Zed goes…

Last week, the Cassini spacecraft began a series of dramatic, “ring-grazing orbits” that will see it fly high over…

New research links the odd and unexplained six-degree tilt of our Sun to an undiscovered planet in the outer reaches…

A stellar view of the night sky, including all of our celestial neighbors, is dependent on countless factors like…