To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Blue Origin just launched a first-of-its kind mission to suborbital space. The company, which was founded by Amazon's Jeff ...

The Euclid space telescope has, by chance, discovered its first Einstein ring, and it is absolutely stunning. Beyond its aesthetic appeal, this perfectly circular Einstein ring has allowed researchers ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in circular orbits around the Sun on a flat disk. But in reality, our Solar ...

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals unprecedented details of it.

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company gave NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity Tuesday, without straying too far from home. Blue ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

And for a long time, scientists have been uncertain ... into planets that were pulled into their orbits by the gravity of the Sun. Brown, Rein and Malhotra think that sometime during the Solar ...

The International Space Station is captured in orbit ... Today, scientists know these icy bodies as time capsules of the ancient solar system. Some astronomers believe comets brought water and ...