Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...

There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the ...

For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast ...

Scientists theorised about the possibility of Planet Y after spotting a strange ‘warp’ in the Kuiper belt, which is a ring of ...

The ambitious mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth is paying off. Just as scientists had hoped, the asteroid is revealing details about the early days of our solar ...

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered dozens of NASA missions over the past 50 years ...

Over four billion years ago, the solar system was a wild and dangerous place. Swirling clouds of dust and gas slowly turned ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shines in the sharpest view yet captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, helping astronomers ...

Asteroid Bennu’s samples show how surface exposure drives color changes and reveal phosphates and organics linked to life’s origins.

UW’s Institute for Data-intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology, founded in 2016 with support from the Charles and ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have ...