Despite the dramatic name, these alignments aren’t exceptionally rare. The last six-planet parade occurred in January 2025, and a four-planet lineup followed in August 2025. What makes each one feel ...

SpaceX received federal environmental approval for Starship launches from Kennedy Space Center, paving the way for up to 1 million AI-powering satellites. Learn what this means for Florida's Space ...

Astronomers have puzzled for years over a strange pattern in the outer solar system. A surprising number of icy bodies far beyond Neptune resemble snowmen, made of two rounded lobes stuck together.

Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University ...

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised ...

An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers who discovered it using telescopes from NASA and the European Space Agency, ...

NASA shared some new infrared images of the 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet this week, showing the visitor brightening up in a dramatic outburst while exiting a solar system. The images were taken by the ...

A NASA probe has started its mission to map the heliosphere, which is a huge protective bubble around the solar system that was created by the sun, the space agency announced on Monday. The space ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, have used satellite data collected over a period of 30 years to create a 3D map of the Sun’s interior magnetic field. Based on their ...

SpaceX has filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission to launch a constellation of up to 1 million solar-powered satellites that it said will serve as data centers for artificial ...

Amazon’s acquisition was approved by the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Image: Pine Gate Renewables. Global tech giant Amazon has been approved as the buyer of the 1.2GW Sunstone ...

HELSINKI — China has published coordinated papers outlining dual missions to the solar system’s edge, suggesting the long-studied project is nearing formal approval. A lead paper on the design and key ...