The experimental director Jem Cohen’s latest is an uncategorizable film about astronomers and humanity and love and the stars ...

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

As more satellites are launched into orbit, space agencies are looking at how to predict space weather events that could harm ...

Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...

Dark “slope streaks,” likely resulting from dust avalanches, stretch across an area of Mars called Acheron Fossae in this ...

Scientists want to study a distant world in the solar system that is classified as a dwarf planet. But some experts think it ...

The object is big – possibly as wide 12 miles, larger than the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs – and is speeding ...

For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...

Astronomers have discovered yet another alien visitor to the Solar System.

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

In physics terms, radiation is simply energy on the move, carried by waves like sunlight or particles like those released by ...