A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

Scientists say microscopic black holes could explain the elusive "dark matter" that makes up a quarter of all matter in the ...

"If there are lots of black holes out there, some of them must surely pass through our backyard every now and then." ...

Researchers designed an energy-efficient device that produces drinking water from seawater using an evaporation process driven largely by the sun.

A brand-new group of frozen objects, orbiting the sun out beyond the distant Kuiper Belt, has been spotted by the Subaru ...

Amateur astronomers can use NASA's mobile app to find the ACS3 for themselves—a reflective satellite that could appear as ...

In a significant milestone for planetary science ... of our solar system, offering the tantalizing possibility of discovering ...

The Subaru Telescope may have spotted a group of mysterious objects orbiting in a ring at the edge of our solar system, ...

A NASA spacecraft erected a large, foil solar sail in orbit around Earth last week, after a failed attempt days earlier.

Using the Subaru Telescope, astronomers have identified previously unknown celestial bodies in the outer Solar System, ...

The weekend brought some wild space news, including a sailing spacecraft and, of course, a couple of astronauts stranded on the International Space Station.

NASA’s Europa Clipper is set launch in October to explore the habitability of an ice-covered ocean world in our solar system ...