The 310-mile-wide celestial body, officially named 2002 XV 93, is classified as a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) because its ...

On April 7, 2025, NASA scientists seized a rare opportunity to study Uranus’ atmosphere during a stellar occultation, when the planet passed between Earth and a star 400 light years away. This cosmic ...

The finding offers fresh insight into our solar system’s farthest, coldest objects in a region known as the Kuiper Belt.

A stunning image captured by a NASA astronaut showing a red ‘sprite lightning’ above a thunderstorm is going viral again one ...

For decades, satellites passing over Earth's north and south poles have experienced a flow of ions from the upper atmosphere into space. Dubbed the 'polar wind', the source of this flow had eluded ...

If confirmed, the rock would become just the second world past Neptune in our solar system to host an atmosphere.

Weighing just over 1,300 pounds, Nasa’s Van Allen Probe A is hurtling toward Earth, with its fiery re-entry set to slam into the atmosphere later tonight. While the risk of it harming anything on ...

A NASA rover taking rock samples on Mars has uncovered a plentiful mineral that was invisible to orbiters studying the Red Planet from space. Scientists say the discovery of siderite, a type of iron ...

NASA confirmed on Monday that an object that crashed into a Naples, Florida, home last month was a piece of hardware from the International Space Station that was supposed to burn up on re-entry ...

NASA has taken to its website to highlight a "rocky" planet approximately 41 light-years from Earth within the constellation Cancer. That planet is called 55 Cancri e, and is referred to as a ...