Image of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 taken in red light on a collision course with Jupiter. Its train of 21 icy fragments stretched across 710 thousand miles (1.1 million km) of space, or 3 times the ...

Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk on, and no place to land a spaceship. But how can that be? If Jupiter doesn ...

Data scientist Shaowei Ying thinks like a policymaker, builds like an entrepreneur and his leadership path's shaped by ...

A rare Jupiter-sized planet AT2021uey b was found 3,200 light-years away using microlensing, a method based on Einstein's Theory of Relativity that observes light bending.

The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

Why do we have a special day to celebrate space rocks? On June 30, 1908, a massive explosion over Tunguska in Siberia ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

Can an asteroid, or two asteroids, crash into Earth in the next seven years? Scientists are observing these space rocks to ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a ...

Casey Chong with ten great 80s sci-fi adventure movies… The 1980s was a great decade for movies with the emergence of modern ...