All the planets orbit in roughly the same plane because they formed from a single rotating disk of gas and dust — the solar nebula — that flattened as it spun around the young Sun. The shared origin ...

The Helix Nebula is approximately 694 light-years away from the Solar System. Despite this seemingly immense distance, it ...

Nebulas are spectacular clouds of gas and dust where stars come to life and fade away. Their radiant beauty has captivated ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

The outline of the cosmic simian's mouth and face are sculpted from a colossal cloud of molecular dust located some 500 light ...

Several years of increased solar activity have turned more heads in the Northern Black Hills toward the night sky in a hope ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled a breathtaking cosmic landscape that looks more like a scene from fantasy than reality. What appears to be a glowing mountain peak shrouded in mist is ...

For years, Dan Harrison’s home in the western hills of Los Angeles would lose power when it was hot, when it rained or when it was very cold — sometimes the outages would stretch longer than 10 hours.

Anthony Wood joined Space.com in April 2025 after contributing articles to outlets including IGN, New Atlas and Gizmodo. He ...

A Texas solar farm is using more than 2,000 sheep to maintain the land, alongside traditional mowers. This practice, known as solar grazing, helps lower emissions and costs while allowing farmland to ...

After 545 entries from 155 photographers in 35 countries, the winners of this year’s Astrophotography Prize Photographer of ...

EIA’s latest monthly “Electric Power Monthly” report (with data through July 31, 2025), once again confirms that solar is the fastest growing among the major sources of US electricity. In July alone, ...