This 150-million-year old space rock may look like a badly-shaped potato but studying it could help scientists understand how ...

Asteroid Donaldjohanson has turned out to be a picturesque waypoint as NASA’s mission heads toward Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids ...

Meteor showers can be spectacular, but predicting when and where they’ll appear in the night sky has often been a challenge.

The University of Arizona has utilized state-of-the-art Magellan Adaptive Optics Xtreme technology to observe the PDS 70 ...

According to Culbertson, Venus will be the higher of the two “eyes” while Saturn will be the lower, and the thin, crescent ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This Sunday, Lucy was expected to fly past her second target ...

Instead of looking for a girl with kaleidoscope eyes, a NASA spacecraft is about to approach space debris formed in the early ...

The Lucy mission is on a 12-year journey to explore a peculiar set of asteroids that lead and follow Jupiter as it orbits the Sun. As it journeys to these Trojan asteroids, the probe is preparing for ...

New research suggests meteor showers are so unpredictable due to the Sun’s own motion around the solar‑system barycenter.

McGee Creek State Park in Atoka, Oklahoma is exactly that kind of revelation – a sprawling natural sanctuary that somehow flies under the radar while more crowded parks get all the glory. Mirror-like ...

Dragging the trash barrel to the curb, I look up at the night sky, and my current self is instantly tethered to all my past ...