Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS — just the third such object ever confirmed to have entered our solar system — flew past Mars last week. A spacecraft got a photo.

"Though our Mars orbiters continue to make impressive contributions to Mars science, it's always extra exciting to see them responding to unexpected situations like this one." ...

A new peer-reviewed study finds that early planet formations were assembled from fragments of earlier bodies within the Solar System.

Space fans blasted the agency for remaining quiet after the mysterious interstellar object in our Solar System made its closest approach to Mars over the weekend.

A team of astronomers took an actual photo of the first-known baby planet discovered in a gap of a star's protoplanetary disk.

A puzzling streak captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover on the Martian surface has sparked curiosity among astronomers and social media users alike, with some speculating that the elongated formation ...

Astronomers once thought the universe’s first stars were only massive giants. New simulations and lab experiments reveal turbulence and early chemistry allowed smaller, Sun-like stars to form too.

Exactly 30 years ago, on October 6, 1995, the University of Geneva Observatory changed our view of the world with the announcement by two scientists, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, of the discovery ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics." The prize has been ...

Instruments on the Mars rover have detected unusual patterns on the surface of the Red Planet in what could be the strongest hint of alien life yet. Two instruments equipped to Nasa's Perseverance ...

Space news in 2025 is just wild. Every week, it feels like something new is happening—Mars rovers sending back weird photos, black holes doing things no one expected, and the Moon suddenly full of ...

This was followed by a thin shotcrete regulating layer, a waterproofing membrane system, and the casting of a new inner shell of concrete. The geothermal system, with an additional 300m of piping in ...