Summer nights offer lots of interesting sights this month. Mercury and Mars are on show in the evening twilight. Both Uranus ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew by Venus while making its way to Saturn. Taking advantage Venus's gravity, Cassini gained ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

Likely Saturn-Mass Planet Imaged by NASA Webb Is Lightest Ever Seen. article 4 days ago. Highlights. 2 min read. New Visualization Portal. article 2 days ago. ... Along the way to the Jupiter Trojans, ...

Read science articles on the Kuiper Belt, including the latest news on Pluto, Eris, Sedna, Quaoar and other Kuiper Belt objects.

The Oort cloud has sent its biggest comet yet towards the inner solar system, and it is travelling at an insane speed, ...

How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? This is what a recent study presented at the ...

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth, but media reports too often ignore the unlikelihood of impact in reports of near-Earth asteroids, a Tucson astronomer says.

This asteroid is one of the most likely to hit Earth. Here’s what it means for our future. New ultraprecise measurements show that the asteroid Bennu has a higher chance than thought of ...

Six planets will be visible in the night sky this June: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Neptune and Jupiter. Mercury will be visible west of the sunset until July 6.

This interview was conducted in October 2023. As the International Space Station approaches 25 years of continuous human ...