When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Planetary scientists are split, oscillating between two main theories that explain the order in ...

SpaceX boss Elon Musk chimed in on the debate over the 3I/ATLAS comet and the subsequent alien conspiracies during an ...

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We all need some space sometimes—but it's harder to find than you might think. How far into our universe do we have to go to reach somewhere truly empty? Our first stop is the International Space ...

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

The Hong Kong Space Museum has launched a brand-new 3D dome show catered to little Einsteins and space-loving adults. Instead of a documentary-style short film like its 2D counterpart ‘T. Rex’, ‘The ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimensions.

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth than the hypothetical Planet X, which astronomers have been hunting for ...

Why do all planets in our solar system orbit the Sun the same way? This documentary unravels the cosmic forces, from the ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...