On July 2, 1985, the European Space Agency launched the Giotto space probe to get a close-up look at Halley's Comet. Nearly ...

Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a ...

As the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is exposed to the star's enormous gravitational field. And it's really stressful.

Astronomers on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of an interstellar object racing through our Solar System -- only the third ...

A European space agency created the first "artificial total solar eclipse" using a pair of satellites on Monday.

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat. The star HIP 67522 is slightly larger than our sun and shines roughly 408 ...

Gravitational assists are an emblematic example of why space travel is hard —it is exactly rocket science, after all. Gravity ...

A recent study in Icarus suggests a wandering star could disrupt our solar system. Simulations reveal that a star passing ...

Moving from the outer layer inward, the first layer is the corona — the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere that is actually hotter than the sun’s surface. This is followed by the chromosphere — a ...

Axiom Mission 4, featuring ISRO astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on ...

The last Dragon spacecraft that SpaceX plans to build entered orbit for the first time with "grace." Reaching space on the ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...