New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

When people think of meteor showers, they often picture themselves reclining under a star-filled sky and watching fleeting ...

Spica is a binary star system located 250 light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. The waxing gibbous moon will ...

It's been a week since Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost mission began its journey to the Moon, carrying NASA's scientific ...

Some scientists think they discovered a new dwarf planet at the edge of the solar system, so far away that it takes around 25,000 years to complete one orbit around the sun. Astrophysicist Dr. Paul ...

Scientists' best explanation for how planets form is called the core accretion theory. The birth of a planetary system begins ...

As it travels, the Moon’s shape – or phase – alters as different amounts of its surface are lit up by the Sun’s rays, Nigel ...

This June, the Milky Way’s brilliant heart lights up the night as planets align and the solstice sun marks Earth’s celestial tipping point.

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star.

Strange, dark streaks on Martian slopes that once hinted at flowing water are now believed to be dry dust slides, revealed ...

A set of dark streaks that regularly wind across the Martian surface are more likely to be formed by dust and wind than by ...