On Tuesday astronomers at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet candidate in a distant ...

The news is bad, the algorithm knows it, and somewhere between breakfast and lunch most days there is a moment where you wonder what we are all doing here. The Brainypedia Instagram page exists to ...

We asked a panel of children, aged from one to 12, to tell us which titles they’d most like to find under the tree this Christmas.

Press play and a warm, excited host blasts off with curious Milo into ten short space stories. Each chapter runs about ten ...

The Solar System is far stranger than most people imagine, from Olympus Mons and Uranus rolling on its side to Jupiter’s shrinking storm and the distant Oort Cloud. These strange facts reveal a cosmic ...

Earth will be long gone by then, but new research shows the outer planets will be thrown out too, and a billion times earlier than expected, according to astrophysics research. The outer planets of ...

Before the sun fully formed, tiny bits of rock were already recording the magnetic forces present in the very early solar system. More than 4.5 billion years later, scientists have learned how to read ...

A federal court has rebuffed the Trump administration’s effort to slash a $7 billion program that seeks to provide rooftop solar power in disadvantaged communities. Judge Mary McElroy, a Trump ...

Thousands of planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, offering clues to where life might thrive and whether Earth is truly unique. By Natalie Wolchover Natalie is a Pulitzer Prize winning ...

Space exploration has transformed our understanding of the Solar System we call home, revealing a collection of worlds that are far more dynamic and strange than scientists ever imagined. Beyond the ...

Mercury, the solar system’s smallest planet and the one closest to the sun, hasn’t received as much love as its celestial neighbors. It’s the least explored of the inner solar system planets, which ...