A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

Scheduled to launch on Feb. 27, NASA's PUNCH mission could revolutionize space weather forecasts, unify the solar corona and ...

Most people hear “spacecraft” and envision rockets blasting into space, but they’re often not aware of the meticulous ...

An instrument created by a team at the University of New Hampshire was recently installed onto a spacecraft that is preparing ...

For decades, scientists have marveled at the Local Hot Bubble—a vast, low-density region stretching roughly 1,000 light-years ...

Helium can help scientists detect the speed and direction at which we’re moving through space. Deuterium, which is left over ...

Helium can help scientists detect the speed and direction at which we’re moving through space. Deuterium, which is left over ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

An interstellar object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have permanently altered our cosmic neighborhood by warping ... astronomers have debated how our solar system's planets formed, and ...

Conduct more detailed simulations to refine the characteristics of the interstellar object and its encounter with the solar system. Search for observational evidence of such past encounters in the ...