The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

Astrophysicist and artist Ed Belbruno explains how art helps scientists communicate their work to the public and even ...

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Our solar system has always seemed a vast place, even to the most ancient astronomers who knew little of the universe other than what the sun, moon, and stars could reveal to the naked eye.

Google just rolled out a new Maps feature showing off some of our favorite planetary neighbors. The new Maps feature label images of our moon, Mercury, Venus, Pluto, the International Space ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s history. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Jonathan O’Callaghan reported on an ...

Donuts of dust: An artist’s impression of the PDS 70 system with protoplanets, each surrounded by dust rings illuminated by starlight. The planets themselves (not to scale) have thin rings of plasma ...

Long gone are the days when road trips meant fighting over the radio station and playing the license plate game. Now, no matter what age your kids are, there are plenty of ways to keep them ...

A secret nuclear fusion rocket developed by British scientists over the past decade has been unveiled today for the very first time. Image courtesy Pulsar Pulsar Fusion’s ‘Sunbird’ concept ...

A planet killer capable of ripping them to pieces has been discovered, say space scientists. Researchers believe they've found evidence that a white dwarf may have torn a Jupiter-sized planet apart.

Space scientists say they have located a planet killer capable of ripping worlds to pieces. Researchers believe they've found evidence that a white dwarf may have torn a Jupiter-sized planet apart. A ...