How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of ...

The shocking findings were part of a recent study in which astronomers effectively peered back in time to discover what Jupiter was like in its early years. Jupiter is not only the largest in the ...

As the third known interstellar object in history, 3I/ATLAS has astronomers and the internet on edge. Is it just a comet from another star system, or something stranger, as Harvard's Avi Loeb hints?

Thanks to JWST, we've learned key details about methanol — a key building block for organic compounds necessary for life — on distant icy worlds. In a distant corner of our solar system called the ...

Study from Bielefeld finds major departure from the standard model. How fast and in what direction is our solar system moving through space? This question, though simple in appearance, plays a central ...