Fresh mapping of the outer solar system has revealed a previously unseen pattern in the Kuiper Belt, the icy ring of debris ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft captured Earth and moon images during a gravity-assist flyby, confirming instrument functionality and maintaining course for its 2029 encounter with asteroid Apophis.

A new solar device converts salt water into drinking water without the need for external energy, offering fast and stable desalination.

Space-based solar power is evolving, with NASA, Star Catcher, and Aetherflux testing new designs for wireless power beaming ...

What would happen if the sun started to dim? Scientists have revealed the terrifying answer to this question, which is the ...

Earth” that sits in the temperate zone of its star, instantly vaulting it into the short list of worlds that might be able to ...

Have you seen the giant Mars exhibition at Bolton Library yet? For a limited time only, Luke Jerram’s Mars will be in Bolton ...

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Scientists have captured an exceptionally rare, high-resolution view of an active region that produced two powerful X-class ...

Venus, with its fiery surface and rapid atmospheric rotation, has always been a subject of fascination for scientists. Recent ...

Physicists have long known how lightning ends, in a blinding discharge that can heat air hotter than the surface of the Sun, ...

This makes it appear correspondingly smaller through a telescope—infinitesimally smaller, in fact, appearing as only a point ...