NASA’s Curiosity rover has spotted carbon-containing minerals that can tell scientists more about what ancient Mars’ atmosphere may have looked like.

Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our Solar System's ninth planet, but was unseated in 2006 after the discovery ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts, a team of ...

A Soviet spacecraft is expected to come hurtling back to Earth after being stuck in orbit for more than 50 years. The Kosmos ...

A piece of space junk called Cosmos 482 is unlikely to pose a threat to people or property. But space experts say it ...

Kosmos 482 has been orbiting the Earth for decades. It's still unknown if the craft will fall to Earth intact or burn up upon ...

Some time in next ten years, a Chinese mission aims to do what’s never been done before: collect cloud particles from Venus ...

NASA has revealed its top skywatching tips for May, and they include a meteor shower, lots of planets, and possibly a nova.

Meanwhile, astronomers are keeping watch for a rare nova—a sudden explosion of a distant star—that could appear to the naked eye sometime in the coming months. When it happens, the nova will ...

Stargazers can see clusters of shooting stars and planets lighting up the California night sky in May. Stunning streams of comet dust will dash across the sky when the Eta Aquarid meteor shower ...

Kosmos 482 was part of the Venera program, a series of Soviet probes that set the early benchmark for exploring Venus. Its ...

Each cloud represents in visible form (due to water droplets) a rising column of air,” the Earth Observatory says. NASA/Earth Observatory A blast from the past will be hitting Earth next week, as a ...