Japan's space agency, JAXA, has been knocking it out of the park with small-body exploration missions for decades. They had ...

Somewhere beyond Neptune, the Kuiper Belt is bent. Not by much, and not in a way any known planet can account for. A study ...

Perovskite solar cells shouldn’t work as well as they do—but they do. Scientists have now discovered that defects inside the material actually help, creating networks that separate and guide electric ...

Imagine an enormous telescope with a sun shield the size of a tennis court that sends back proof of a lemon-shaped exoplanet ...

Planets around other stars can help answer one of the greatest mysteries: How did we get here? How did the spinning disk of material left behind by our sun’s birth form our planet and its seven ...

A replica of the spacecraft at the center of the groundbreaking, award-winning NASA mission that “touched the Sun” is now on public display. A full-scale model of Parker Solar Probe — the ...

The standard story of the origin of our solar system has gone like this: 4.6 billion years ago, a giant cloud of dust hung frozen in space. Then the explosion of a nearby star caused part of that dust ...

The new version of the SDM was presented in “ The intrinsic adjusted single-diode model: Solid State Physics meets accurate yield simulation,” published in Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. This ...

An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers who discovered it using telescopes from NASA and the European Space Agency, ...

For over a decade, confusion over the size of the proton has held scientists back. Disagreeing measurements of the subatomic particle’s radius meant that scientists couldn’t test one of their key ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. NASA shared some new infrared images of the 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet this week, showing the visitor brightening up in ...