The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...

The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper's larger and long-running crossword. Most days, there are between ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

Every week, Space.com delivers the latest discoveries, launches, and cosmic curiosities from across the universe. From ...

ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory has captured Comet 3I/ATLAS in X-ray light. This marks the first X-ray observation of the ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something NASA is calling "space gum?" ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Rhea looks like a frozen, quiet world — but the deeper scientists investigate, the stranger Saturn’s second-largest moon becomes. Its surface is scarred by ancient impacts, mysterious lines, and ...

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed predicted by standard cosmology. Using highly sensitive data from multiple ...

How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the key tests of our cosmological understanding. A research team led by ...