Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...

The remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across East Antarctica have been discovered—and ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen—possibly predating our solar ...

In our analysis this week, we look at how NASA's proposed budget would slash the agency's science division by nearly 50%.

While it’s unlikely anyone would notice a missing millisecond, there’s potential this speed-up could have ramifications for ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a ...

Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...