The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

The object’s aphelion – the farthest point on the orbit from the Sun – is more than 1,600 times that of the Earth’s orbit,” said Sihao Cheng of the Institute for Advanced Study, discussing the ...

Using a newly developed adaptive optics system called Cona, scientists peered through Earth's turbulent air to reveal the sun ...

A new 8K camera system at the Vacuum Tower Telescope in Tenerife captures images of the Sun's surface in stunning detail.

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The fall of the Aguas Zarcas meteorite was no ordinary event. It came from a nearly vertical angle, about 81 degrees steep, ...

Venus could be hiding asteroids that would be deadly if they hit Earth, some experts say. A new study published in the ...

Astronomers are using data from the recently decommissioned star-mapping satellite to help determine masses and more accurate ...

The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and outright scepticism. Recently, scientists claimed the “strongest evidence” of ...

Detailed images of the sun's corona have been hampered by turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere. Adaptive optics now make it possible to compensate for this.

Watch wind whirl from the Sun - this Solar Orbiter mission is first to capture wind flying out from the Sun in a twisting, whirling motion ...