Astronomers are once again getting excited about a rare nova that could appear in the night sky anytime from now into the coming months. Here's why.

Second-Largest Asteroid in the Solar System May Be an Ancient Piece From a Lost Planet, Claim Scientists Space exploration ...

Kosmos 482 has been orbiting the Earth for decades. It's still unknown if the craft will fall to Earth intact or burn up upon ...

A Soviet spacecraft launched a half-century ago called Kosmos 482 has been orbiting the Earth for decades and is at last ...

SPHEREx begins full-sky survey of hundreds of millions of galaxies NASA telescope captures 3,600 unique cosmic images every day Mission to reveal the universe’s early inflation and galactic evolution ...

NASA warns of asteroid 2025 HY2, the size of a Boeing, approaching Earth on May 7 at 48,900 kilometres per hour.

Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially ...

The first image of the whole Earth from space came in 1972, when astronauts Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt took a photo from onboard Apollo 17 while headed to the Moon. This was the first time that an ...

By comparing those fingerprints to 20 different molecules that they would potentially expect to observe in the atmosphere, ...

For years, astronomers have toyed with the idea that the Sun hides an extra planet so distant and dim that even the best ...

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory director Laurie Leshin discussed various outer space endeavors in an earth and planetary ...

SPHEREx begins mapping the sky in infrared, exploring the universe’s origins and life’s building blocks across the Milky Way.