When it does take place, the outburst will be brief but it will appear as a new star in the sky for a little less than a week ...

Quantitatively upstaging Earth’s guest appearance of a second moon this fall, a recent study found that Saturn has 128 new ...

Around 66 million years ago an asteroid hurtled towards Earth and smashed into the planet, setting off a chain of events that ...

A partial solar eclipse is set to rise in the skies over western Europe and eastern North America this week, but a rare ...

Two space missions reached their conclusion: one with a splashdown, the other with a quiet lunar death. And thrilling new ...

📣 Using @almaobs 📡, in which ESO is a partner, astronomers have discovered oxygen in the most distant known galaxy! This ...

Astronomers crack the case of a mysterious deep space radio ... and is trying to figure out if NASA's recently launched ...

"We might have finally found the cause of a mystery that's lasted over 40 years," said researcher Sandino Estrada-Dorado.

SpaceX’s Dragon Freedom capsule safely splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday evening, bringing astronauts Barry ...

A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...