This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

Man” Wallace stood before Queen Anne’s County Commissioners Oct. 14 with stories from one of Earth’s most remote places and a ...

Step outside on a clear evening and turn your gaze toward the northern horizon — you might just catch a glimpse of a rare ...

What would happen if Earth, Mars, and all the planets in our solar system merged into one massive super-planet? In this video ...

The rate r, in the context of NASA spacecraft measurements, is a generalized term representing various types of rates that are crucial in different scientific disciplines. The specific definition of r ...

Scientists have uncovered a mysterious relic from an area of the moon that has never been explored by humans until now.

THAT’s NO MOON - Earth doesn’t just have one moon; sometimes, it has a companion satellite or “mini-moon.” Discovered on ...

China’s Advancing BeiDou Navigation Satellite System China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, often just called BDS, has ...

An interstellar visitor known as 3I/ATLAS, currently hurtling toward its closest approach to the Sun, has ignited a debate among astronomers (and enthusiasts) over its true nature.

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

In a discovery that could rewrite what we know about where water comes from and the building blocks of life in the solar ...