Winter often feels like a long stretch of weak light and cold air. The idea that Earth is actually closest to the Sun during ...

The New Year would begin with our planet being closest to the sun, raising queries about the cold weather and no heat despite ...

The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...

Google’s proposal to explore space-based AI infrastructure raises fundamental questions about energy, physics and feasibility ...

Space debris – the collection of defunct human-made objects in Earth's orbit – is already affecting space agencies, companies ...

Even most rocket scientists would rather avoid hard math when they don't have to do it. So when it comes to figuring out ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is confirmed as a natural comet from beyond our solar system, posing no threat to Earth despite ...

Every January, Earth reaches its closest point to the Sun, known as perihelion. Yet, it’s winter in the Northern Hemisphere.

A new dataset from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory maps one million cis-lunar orbits, highlighting orbital stability challenges, space domain awareness needs, and planning requirements for Moon ...

An astronaut on the ISS photographed a "lunar halo" over the Indian Ocean, revealing ice and rare optical phenomena from ...

Space is always inspiring and 2025 was no exception, with finding Betelgeuse’s buddy, debuting a prolific survey telescope ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...