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

British rock band The Beatles put out a song titled ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’. The song’s letters, LSD, were said at ...

Unlike a total solar eclipse, part of the sun is still visible during a partial solar eclipse, so there is no darkening of ...

For now, it looks like NASA’s orange behemoth has a little life left in it. All the hardware for the Artemis II mission has ...

An observational tango has thus emerged between the two methods. The transit method generates a large number of “candidates”, ...

However, thanks to some serious space detective work, including a powerful new tool called MAROON-X, a team of scientists was ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

It is the single largest element for NASA's Artemis II mission, slated to ferry a crew of astronauts around the far side of ...

Astronomers have tracked several meteorites that dropped in on Earth back to their origin, space rocks in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.

Astronomers have examined infant planets orbiting a star 370 light-years away, seeing the exomoon forming disks of gas and ...