"Become an even smaller baby."That one sentence started the story of the universe with baby Sol.In parts ①〜③, we traced the ...

If you ask planetary astronomers where the solar system ends, they will say well past the planets, well past the bright band of the Kuiper Belt where Pluto resides, and still further to a shadowy ...

Scientists with the U.S. National Science Foundation have identified a large object in the outer reaches of the solar system ...

The video explains a simulated future merger between the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy. It covers how the encounter ...

Somewhere in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, about twenty-five thousand light-years away, sits the anchor of ...

The James Webb Telescope has mapped an egg-shaped atmosphere on a distant giant planet, revealing distortions caused by ...

When you think of galaxies, you probably imagine them spinning around in a spiral. Our Milky Way galaxy, along with the solar ...

Last week, we explored the wonders of our universe, from Perseverance's record-setting journey across Mars and the city of ...

Billions of years from now, the sun is expected to run out of fuel and greatly expand into what is called a red giant, ...

In "The Devil in the Dark," the silicon-based Horta go undetected by scans built for carbon-based life. Wong expects real ...

Star Trek's Genesis device melts a world down and rebuilds it. Thompson does something similar on a tiny scale, using a laser ...

Astronomers using the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory have found what may be a new dwarf planet in the outer Solar System.