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Dwarf planets may be small, but they’re some of the most intriguing objects in our cosmic neighborhood. These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they

NASA’s planet-hunting TESS spacecraft recently caught a view of a very different kind of cosmic object: interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. During a special observation run from Jan. 15 to Jan. 22,

Rocket Lab launched a South Korean disaster-monitoring satellite from New Zealand on Thursday (Jan. 29), about six weeks later than originally planned. A 59-foot-tall (18-meter-tall) Electron rocket launched the “Bridging

New York Times bestselling author Daniel Kraus, whose popular “Whalefall” novel was adapted into an upcoming feature film by Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment, sets his creative compass for an interstellar

Perched on Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39B, NASA’s Artemis 2 SLS rocket is poised to propel itself into the heavens as early as Feb. 8, for a 10-day lunar

The sun has erupted in a relentless barrage of powerful solar flares over the past 24 hours, firing off at least 18 M-class flares and three X-class flares, including an

Jupiter has had its length and breadth measured again, and it turns out the giant planet is skinnier and shorter than scientists had thought. “Textbooks will need to be updated,”

A new comet approaching the sun has caught the attention of astronomers, primarily because of its lineage. It appears to belong to a group of comets that in some cases

25 years after Halo: Combat Evolved launched, Microsoft and Xbox Game Studios are planning to refresh the original sci-fi first-person shooter for franchise veterans and the younger gamers alike. Enter

Imagine a visitor from beyond our cosmic neighborhood. Not just from the next street over, but from an entirely different star system, a place we can only dream of reaching.