Asteroids are rocky objects left over from the early days of our solar system, orbiting the Sun much like planets. While most ...

The shells of carbon-rich dust are expanding outward into space at the breakneck velocity of 1,600 miles per second.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitors asteroid 2022 CE2, expected to safely pass Earth on January 16, 2025. The ...

Recent simulations link the creation of Pluto and its moon Charon to a colossal impact, akin to the Earth-Moon origin, ...

New observational data from the James Webb Space Telescope and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike ...

Space agencies around the world are setting their sights on new frontiers, with plans to explore Venus and other distant ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

The discovery of two new planets beyond our solar system by a team of astronomers from The University of Warwick and the ...

A spacecraft named BepiColombo is currently zipping by planet Mercury, making a very close flyby and snapping incredible high ...

Reaching Mercury is such a challenge because “the gravitational pull of the Sun is very strong near Mercury, which makes it ...

ESA and JAXA's BepiColombo mission recently completed its last flyby of Mercury, revealing stunning details about the ...

A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it ...