An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...

For years, scientists have been puzzled about why Earth and Mars have fewer important elements like copper and zinc compared ...

Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...

According to SpaceX’s own calculation, the Roadster completed its first orbit around the Sun in August 2019 and made its ...

A large team of researchers working on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Collaboration, which has been analyzing eleven years' ...

Understanding how and when Earth, Jupiter, other planets in the Solar System, and numerous exoplanets formed within our ...