NASA says these images offer a rare chance to watch space weather begin with our own eyes. It’s a vital step to improve ...

The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Imagine looking up at the night sky in wonder. It’s clear and the blackness is studded with stars, thousands of light years ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

According to the story: “Astronomers are monitoring an object headed our way that may have wandered over from another star ...

NASA asteroid defense setback prompts experts to warn about gaps in Earth’s planetary protection strategy. Length: 145 ...

NASA's DART spacecraft attempted to deflect an asteroid about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza. New work tracking the debris has found a few fairly large surprises.

Unlike rocky planets where asteroid impacts leave visible craters, gas giants like Saturn have outer layers of hydrogen and ...

Astronomers have called for help to identify a mystery object that may have hit Saturn on Saturday in what could be the first ...

Wu Weiren, chief designer of China’s lunar program and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, elected as ...