An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better ...

Achieving practical interstellar travel requires overcoming the immense challenge of reaching extraordinary velocities. To ...

Researchers have pioneered an innovative method using helioseismology to measure the solar radiative opacity under extreme ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

JANUARY 27, 2025 — The UTSA Office of University Strategic Communications has earned The University of Texas System’s top award for communications strategy for its storytelling about the university’s ...

The United States Postal Service has issued two new stamps featuring stellar images beamed back to Earth by the James Webb ...

Active Surfaces says its thin, flexible solar collectibles can be attached not just to roofs, but walls, tents, backpacks, ...

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star Unlike our Sun, which exists alone, at least half of the stars in our ...

The case of mistaken identity was quickly resolved, but astronomers say it shows the need for transparency around craft in ...

A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.