A Southwest Research Institute-led study has proposed a connection between a specific collision in the main asteroid belt and ...

Astronomers discover Beta Pictoris d, a faint gas giant exoplanet, expanding insights into planet formation in multi-planet ...

Reflect Orbital has won initial approval for a plan to put thousands of mirrors in orbit that would be visible from anywhere ...

A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million ...

Typically, astronomers identify comets by their distinct atmospheres, or comae, and their tails, which are created as the sun ...

Somewhere between a Mr. Burns scheme and every plan Cobra Commander ever pitched sits the idea of launching giant mirrors into space so we can shine sunlight back onto Earth after dark. It also ...

After more than ten years of playing hide-and-seek, researchers have discovered one of the lightest planets ever directly ...

At the right point of the orbit and stellar cycle, the star’s chromosphere brightens.

The DoW invested $7.1M to boost U.S. satellite coverglass manufacturing, enhancing space solar cell durability and national security.

Rocky exoplanet atmosphere confirmed for the first time in a habitable zone: Harvard astronomers detected helium escaping ...

Orbital Compute’s proposed 100,000-satellite network and Cowboy Space’s vertically integrated Stampede system offer sharply ...

The discovery boosts the chances of finding extraterrestrial life.