Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...

Observers across eastern North America and much of Europe will have front-row seats to the striking partial solar eclipse on March 29. Here's what to expect.

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

The alignment only happens at special times, and that’s because the orbit of the Moon around the Earth is slanted with ...

A "potentially hazardous" asteroid the size of a pyramid will skim past Earth today, Nasa has revealed. The space rock, known ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or ...

TN17 is estimated to be around 540 feet in diameter, which is greater than the height of the Pyramid of Giza in Egypt (449 ...

What's on and in a star? What happens in an active galactic nucleus? Answering those questions is the goal of a proposed ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

The aim is for the robot to set foot on the Red Planet several years before humans ... Since then, the vehicle has been following an elliptical orbit around the Sun. Recently, astronomers even ...