Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to oblivion ...

Home sweet home If you were to look at a giant picture of space, zoom in on the Milky Way galaxy, and then zoom in again on one of its outer spiral arms, you’d find the solar system. Astronomers ...

Is the Hubble constant—a key part of how we measure the expansion of our universe—in a crisis? Some cosmologists say yes.

An interstellar dance party, pop-up planetarium, dazzling galactic decor, and a constellation of culinary delights—we’re blasting off into summer this year as Metropolis at Metrotown launches its ...

But as products of the solar system, we also could see ourselves as Bennu brothers, Psyche sisters, comet cousins—kin to the asteroids and comets that chronicle our deepest histories.

Evidence that the universe is rotating was recently delivered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which found that ...

"We have discovered a galaxy that has been 'perfectly preserved' for billions of years, a true archaeological find that tells us how the first galaxies were born and helps us understand how the ...

Could the universe be spinning like a giant top? This idea, proposed by physicist Nikodem Poplawski, opens surprising ...

Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the early universe and uncover the building blocks of galaxies during their formative years. The CRISTAL ...

A new observatory perched high in the Chilean Andes is about to blow the lid off our solar system—and scientists say it’s going to be like switching from a black-and-white TV to 4K color.

A new observatory is set to detect millions of never-before-seen solar system objects, a global group of astronomers led by Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) has said.

Lithium Universe believes the technology could also be integrated into existing solar recycling facilities and inexpensively scaled up for mass production. The cost to lock in the technology consists ...