MIT engineers have developed a groundbreaking solar-powered desalination system that operates in sync with the sun's energy ...

New Horizons—the famous NASA spacecraft that flew by Pluto in 2015—is now making new discoveries beyond the Kuiper Belt. With ...

If you want to pinpoint your place in the universe, start with your cosmic address. You live on Earth->Solar System->Milky ...

Every planet in our solar system is essentially round. But out in the universe, are there any planets that aren't spherical? Technically, planets are round, by definition; they need to have enough ...

Charon, discovered in 1978, has the distinction of being the solar system's largest moon relative in size to the planet it ...

A recently discovered comet, known as C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, will make its closest approach of Earth on Saturday.

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some ...

If microscopic black holes born a fraction of a second after the Big Bang exist, as some researchers suspect, then at least one may fly through the solar system ... in the universe is composed ...

Primordial black holes are one of the strongest candidates for the Universe’s dark matter. In this scenario, their abundance would be large enough for at least one object to cross through the inner ...

Not everyone will be able to see the phenomenon, known as an annular eclipse, on Wednesday, though a partial solar eclipse ...

An international research team led by Los Alamos National Laboratory studied asteroid Bennu's tracking data to investigate ...