Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. This artist's conception compares a hypothetical solar system centered around a tiny "sun" (top) to a known solar ...

A comet traveling outside the solar system and heading toward the Earth is much larger than scientists first believed, a scientist has detailed in a new report. Avi Loeb claims the comet could even be ...

Yesterday was the anniversary of one of the greatest discoveries in medicine, and it began with an observation. "CBS Evening News" co-anchor John Dickerson explains. Theft of Guy Fieri's tequila sheds ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. The dwarf planet, formerly known as 2003 UB313 (or Xena), is now called Eris, after the Greek goddess of discord and ...

Tesla starts releasing FSD v14 Breakthroughs this week. Versions 14.0, 14.1, and 14.2 already exist and are undergoing internal testing by Tesla employees. Elon Musk describes v14 as a game-changer ...

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The early years of our solar system were a period of unimaginable chaos and violence, a gravitational free-for-all where colliding planetary embryos competed for survival. In this tumultuous ...

Stars up to eight solar masses conclude their lives by shedding outer layers, forming spectacular planetary nebulae of glowing gas and dust in a phase lasting tens of thousands of years. The James ...

Just two decades after astronomers discovered the first exoplanet, NASA has confirmed the existence of 6,000 alien worlds. The total will rise even quicker as next-generation telescopes take flight.

Getting rid of Daylight Saving Time (DST) has been a much talked about subject for years, with people mainly residing in two camps: Make DST permanent or get rid of it entirely. Now, a new study from ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has confirmed an interstellar object is passing through our solar system. The object is a comet hailing from the direction of the constellation ...

More than 2 billion kilometers farther from the sun than Pluto, a frigid world named Makemake sports the most distant gas ever seen in our solar system, new observations reveal. “By surprise, we found ...