Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days — the ...

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

Jupiter was shaping Earth's fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early solar system that kept its ...

The newly discovered object 3I/ATLAS (officially designated C/2025 N1) has taken the astronomical community by surprise.

Southwest Research Institute could lose more than $265 million if the cuts go through, including defunding missions already ...

Astronomers at the Center for Research in Information and Communication Technologies (CITIC) at the University of A Coruña, ...

NASA has activated a global planetary defense group to study a massive interstellar object exhibiting strange, possibly artificial characteristics ...

Below the waves of the Mediterranean, Europe's KM3NeT neutrino telescope is on a cosmic hunt. Towering strings of sensors ...

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ...

Two decently bright comets that share a superficial resemblance are gracing our skies right now, in fact: C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) ...

UCL researchers are investigating how a UK-led team could design and build one of the core instruments on a flagship NASA ...