Another (and, in our view, more important) source of energy for life on Iceheim is the heat coming from its core, underneath ...

A comet that was born in another solar system and could be billions of years old is hurdling through Earth’s solar system — a ...

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile recently captured rare footage of the visitor known as 3I/ATLAS — only the third interstellar object discovered. What’s more impressive: The observatory ...

Sky watchers may have reason to look up this week. NASA has confirmed that two asteroids will fly past Earth on August 3. The ...

Mars remains an evening fixture, Saturn is nearing opposition, and Venus and Jupiter meet in the predawn sky Aug. 12.

Older readers may remember that in 2019, Antonio Tajani wrote to Jean-Claude Juncker (Tajani and Juncker being in charge of ...

In this edition of WTOP’s monthly space feature, “What’s up in the sky?” Greg Redfern tells you how to see the moon, planets, stars and Perseid meteor shower.

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As of 2025, the distances these spacecraft have travelled are staggering. Voyager 1, at 166,40 astronomical units (about 24,9 billion km from earth), is the most distant by a human made object ever.

For decades, astronomers believed our Solar System was a typical model of how planetary systems should form. But recent discoveries are reshaping that view, revealing that our cosmic neighborhood may ...

On July 21, 2025, theEuropean Southern Observatory (ESO) highlighted an exciting discovery made possible by its cutting-edge ...

This can cause geomagnetic disturbances on the ground at those high latitudes. They also report the fact that it can cause ...