Space looks empty until you try to cross it. Far beyond Pluto, where sunlight is faint and the planets are long behind, ...

During the height of the Space Race, space exploration occupied a much larger place in American culture and education.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected methane gas in the coma of comet 3I/ATLAS, marking the first time this ...

Two spacecraft captured opposite sides of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS at the same moment in November 2025, producing the first simultaneous ultraviolet view of both hemispheres of an object born in ...

Where does the solar system end and interstellar space begin? That's a question scientists have been working to answer using ...

Researchers are closer to unraveling a longstanding solar mystery surrounding the extreme thinness of the sun's tachocline ...

While life on Mars (and Venus) has long been an obsession for those wondering if we're alone, there are other places in our ...

Perhaps you’re dreaming of obtaining your home’s electricity without having to rely on that provided by your town or city. If so, you’re hoping to go “off the grid.” And if that’s your dream, you’ve ...

Hints of high-pressure chemistry within a rare meteorite suggest this fallen space rock comes from a planet gone wrong in the solar system’s early history NASA ordered its astronauts to take refuge ...

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the third known interstellar comet ever spotted. When scientists turned NASA’s ...

Scientists have developed a solar desalination system that turns seawater into drinking water without creating environmentally damaging brine. Special laser-textured metal panels use sunlight to ...