ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander is en route to the Moon, capturing stunning Earth images and carrying NASA-funded ...

A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

The idea of cosmic threats to Earth almost sounds like the stuff of fiction. But while alien invasions may be far fetched, ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is tracking the asteroid 2024 YY5. The space rock will approach Earth on Sunday, January 26.

The case of mistaken identity was quickly resolved, but astronomers say it shows the need for transparency around craft in ...

The dataset covers the period between September 2004 and December 2023 and will enable researchers to explore and model some ...

Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system.

Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of ...

While planets circle the sun in what's called and heliocentric orbit, they rarely fall together in what appears to the human ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of planetary collision called “kiss-and-capture,” where Pluto and proto-Charon briefly connected and spun together before separating into their current orbital ...