Since a potentially hazardous asteroid was detected in December, tens of others objects have come close to Earth.

Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, ...

"The Milky Way seemed like a million of stars, it was beautiful, it was incredible," the 22-year-old recalled of her summer 2023 trip to the national park, which is also a certified International Dark ...

For the first time, scientists have developed a 3D map of an atmosphere belonging to a planet outside our solar system.

telescope operators, and more drove home the point that astronomers are only one part of a much larger community standing behind these successful observatories. That community includes U.S. and ...

Chinese scientists have been continuously observing an asteroid that may collide with Earth in 2032 since early January, ...

NASA has upgraded the odds of an asteroid hitting Earth in 2032. The space rock, named asteroid 2024 YR4, now has a 3.1 per ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long ...

Around a star 880 light-years from Earth orbits one of the wildest, most extreme exoplanets we've found to date.

Large telescopes around the world continue to track Asteroid 2024 YR4 before it fades out of view this spring and the odds of ...

Pluto may not be a planet any more, but you still have a chance to see the distant dwarf planet at one of Michigan's ...

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto ...