The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has confirmed an interstellar object is passing through our solar system. The object is a comet hailing from the direction of the constellation ...

A near term laser ablation of micropellets can be made to rapidly accelerate one ton space probes to reach Pluto in one year. The NASA New Horizons launched in 2006 took 9.5 years to reach Pluto and ...

It’s often assumed that Earth is somehow separate from the rest of the universe. Yet changes in environments across the solar ...

I/ATLAS was first spotted by NASA scientists in May this year. Ever since, it has displayed behaviors that are not just ...

A pellet of plutonium 238, illuminated by the glow of its own radioactivity. NASA and other space agencies use this material in radioisotope power sources for interplanetary missions to the solar ...

Humanity's drive to explore has taken us across the solar system, with astronaut boots, various landers and rovers' wheels ...

November's Sky Above episode features a supermoon, meteor shower, and interstellar comet, with experts discussing these ...

China envisions exploring the solar system, and it seems that would happen soon. The country launched Tianwen-2, an innovative space probe tasked with retrieving samples from an uncharted asteroid and ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) — Pentagon officials released a draft document, saying aliens might be visiting the solar system and releasing small probes to study planets like Earth. The draft research report is ...

"The national security establishment has already been doing this for five decades but thought that no one could replicate it, ...

These rare samples, uncovered on the moon by China’s Chang’e 6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the solar system ...