Astronomers at the Complutense University of Madrid first spotted this intriguing event using a powerful telescope in ...

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope has received its Optical Telescope Assembly, paving the way for its mission to explore the ...

A mini moon that will bid farewell to Earth soon may in fact be a small hunk of the big moon — the one that has loomed far ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, will pass Earth at a distance of about 273,000 miles, just further than the moon's 238,900-mile ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

For spinning spheres, centrifugal force is maximized at the equator, where the rotational speed is highest. The amount of the ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

New research co-authored by Duncan Watson-Parris of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Halıcıoğlu ...

November's spectacle closes out a series of four big and bright full moons that have captivated sky watchers since late ...

Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...