Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos.

Will the Lower Hudson Valley be able to see these celestial spectacles Feb. 1 and 3? It depends on the weather.

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

Scientists suggested the enormous object disrupted the orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, which would explain the peculiarities of these four planets' paths. Prevailing solar system ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

This provides another piece of the puzzle to understand how planets and ... New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) was a popular sector in 2024, but not all hot stocks were in that field. Given its strong share ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...