Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...

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The eerie yet beautiful auroras that delivered pink and green nighttime skies across New Mexico and much of the U.S. this ...

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...

Renyu Hu, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics, investigates the atmospheres, climates, and evolution of exoplanets, with the goal of identifying and characterizing potentially habitable ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the class of 2035 won't just find jobs, they may blast off to them. In a new interview, he forecast that in about 10 years, some college grads could be exploring the solar ...

As evidence continues to mount that the mysterious object with interstellar origins currently speeding toward the inner solar system at a breakneck speed is a comet, not everybody’s convinced quite ...

Our solar system contains many planets, moons, and asteroid that we may one day call home, but the future might instead be artificial space habitats, stations, and megastructures of vast size and ...

Astronomers have found that a weird space rock at the edge of the solar system is locked in a rhythmic dance with Neptune. The object, designated 2020 VN40, is part of a family of distant solar system ...

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today." Astronomers have discovered a massive new solar system body located ...