Chemical rockets have powered humanity’s journey into space for decades. Their explosive thrust is essential for launch, but in the vacuum of space, these systems quickly burn through fuel, making ...

The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

The solar wind pushes some of the gas and dust away from the comet, forming those beautiful tails we see. A comet actually ...

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...

How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has small chance of striking the Earth on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2032.

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...