NASA's DART mission in 2022 dramatically altered an asteroid's orbit, potentially sending debris toward Earth and Mars, ...

A recent discovery has revealed a gigantic underground ocean, three times larger than all of Earth's surface oceans combined, ...

Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya stayed in orbit for just 12 days, coming home in April aboard the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft with NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara. Soyuz MS-24 launched in September 2023, carrying O ...

If it's bright and easily seen during that period, prepare for a spectacular show later in October when it re-emerges, with ...

Earth will be getting a second moon in the form of Asteroid 2024 PT5, which will start orbiting our planet later this month.

Astronomers and sky watchers have their fingers crossed that an approaching comet could put on a nighttime show on Earth next month, but it’s already strutting its stuff for those in space.

In Japan, Autumnal Equinox Day is a national holiday. In Japanese, it’s known as Shubun no Hi (秋分の日), according to Coto ...

Comets take the name of the discoverer, whether that be a human or an automated telescopic survey that robotically inspects ...

A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), discovered in January 2023, is on its way to becoming one of the most remarkable astronomical ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS originated from the Oort Cloud, a bubble of ice and dust that surrounds our solar system. It was ...

Matthew Dominick continues to wow us with impressive astrophotography from aboard the International Space Station.

Image from Alexander Kluge's short film, “The Galactic Year” (Alexander Kluge Archive, Cornell University) Johann Sebastian ...