Space.com's 24 space images of 2024! The most awe-inspiring space photos of the year from our Space Images of the Day.

Earth's mesmerizing northern and southern lights — the auroras — have captivated humans for millennia. But our planet isn't ...

The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the fifth largest planet in our solar system ...

The spunky Lucy mission will make a second gravity assist of our world tonight as it heads off on its hunt for the solar ...

19, 2024 — Scientists have unveiled groundbreaking research on the origins of lunar water, offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar ...

Comets, often described as the solar system's "dirty snowballs," are icy bodies made of rock, dust and ices. These relics of ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like ...

Planetary scientists recently simulated an alternate version of our solar system: one with a super-Earth causing climate chaos on Earth, Mars and Venus. One of the most common types of planets in ...

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped asteroids, planets and moons grow in our solar system. Analysis of three ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has caught the first-ever direct image of two planets outside the solar system orbiting an Earth-like star. The trio captured on camera ...

A temporary mini-moon snared by Earth's gravity for nearly two months before departing back into the solar system can be seen in a new image from the Two-Meter Twin Telescope in Spain. The near ...

Here’s how it works. Earth isn't alone in orbiting our sun; it's joined by a bunch of planets, moons, asteroids, and comets that we collectively call our solar system. But how much do you know ...