Caltech scientists are developing laser-driven lightsails that could push spacecraft beyond our solar system. Their research ...

VISITORS to the Moon could race across the planet’s surface in an “extreme” car dropped there by Elon Musk. That’s the vision of a Nasa-backed company that is working on a ...

There's a new race in space, but it's not where you might think. It's happening close to home – in the nearest bit of space, ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Japan on Sunday launched a navigation satellite on its new flagship H3 rocket as the country seeks to have a more precise location positioning system of its own.

NASA is fueling an exciting future for citizen science by funding 25 new projects across diverse fields, from astrophysics to ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Earth's unusual orbit through hot and cold conditions tests the limits of tolerability for any known lifeforms.

Long ago, a planetary object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have once visited the solar system and altered […] The post ...

"This planet could play a pivotal role in future missions... to search for biosignatures indicating potential life, " Dr.

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

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