A mysterious celestial body speeding through the solar system and shedding metals was captured in July by the Very Large ...

Astronomers have discovered that asteroid 1998 KY26, the target of Japan’s Hayabusa2 extended mission, is far smaller and faster-spinning than previously thought. Astronomers have conducted a new ...

While many of the original cherry trees have been replaced over time, the surrounding Susquehannock State Forest still features beautiful stands of black cherry, maple, and other hardwoods that create ...

The Milky Way galaxy is far from static. It spins, it wobbles, and now, thanks to the European Space Agency’s Gaia space ...

Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that ...

The Roman Space Telescope's next generation coronagraph instrument will help deliver amazing views of exoplanets. Learn how ...

A UCLA astronomer who leads planetary defense missions for NASA says avoiding asteroid impacts is “a problem we can ...

These so-called Venus co-orbital asteroids are currently undetected because of their alignment in the sky but could one day drift into Earth’s path, at least according to simulations combining ...

Michigan State University assistant professor Darryl Seligman has led the first-ever scientific paper published about ...

October is a star-studded month with two meteor showers, winter constellations and a good chance to see a trio of green ...

New questions emerge as an “extremely puzzling" discovery challenges our current ideas about the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.