While it won't appear strawberry-red, the Moon is named after the wild strawberries that start to ripen during early summer, ...

Lightning, with its extreme temperatures, is capable of transforming atmospheric gases into prebiotic compounds. These molecules are essential for the emergence of life, as may have been the case ...

A paper by astronomers Nathan Kaib and Sean Raymond released earlier this month used new simulations to determine how likely ...

A passing star has been discovered that could cause chaos in the Solar System, sending Earth flying out of orbit.

Mercury, for instance, is already the wild card of the inner planets. Its orbit grows more eccentric over time, increasing ...

In the Northern Hemisphere, June 20 is the day on which the sun is highest in the sky, aka the summer solstice! This is the ...

Astronomers detected both X-ray and radio pulses from a single mysterious space object, known as ASKAP J1832-0911, every 44 ...

Venus will rise in the eastern sky in the pre-dawn hours of June 1 alongside Saturn and Neptune. Venus reaches its point of ...

New research suggests that our entire solar system is vulnerable to being thrown into chaos by a distant star.

Scientists have painted a scary scenario for the solar system, where one passerby might trigger the death of every planet, ...

Scientists have discovered a colossal object approximately 435 miles wide in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has done it again, discovering the "mother of all early galaxies," a record-breaking distant ...