Solar system

The sun rode a massive galactic migration wave to the Milky Way’s suburbs

An obscure lunar region called Rimae Bode is emerging as a high-priority landing site for China’s first crewed moon mission

The science of the zodiac is more intriguing than astrology would have you think

This weekend will offer a chance to see a rare celestial event—Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all aligned in the sky like beads on a string

Fresh observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how vivid auroras surge through Uranus’s tilted magnetic field

A study published today helps explain how “planetesimals”—the building blocks of planets—came to be

Scientists have spent decades searching for the final resting place of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. Now they’re on the cusp of finding it

Astronauts are flying to the moon for the first time since 1972, and scientists are preparing specialized space suits for the next milestone—landing there

The sun is experiencing a violent solar storm, releasing one of the strongest solar flares seen in the past 30 years

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time

On Friday NASA laid out the time line for Artemis II, humanity’s first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years

Total eclipses, lunar occultations, planetary conjunctions and meteor showers await stargazers this year