The Moon’s surface is covered by impact craters, ranging from microscopic pits to massive basins over 1,000 kilometres across ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...

The leftover debris from history's most famous comet will once again streak across the skies over New York. The upcoming ...

Once you remember that the sun also orbits the solar system's common center of mass, it all makes sense. Our sun is wobbling, ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

The planet orbits its host star in just 30.5 hours, losing a mass of material roughly equal to Mount Everest each time ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

Perhaps the best known of all comets is Halley, correctly pronounced so that it rhymes with rally, not daily. It is named after the 17th-18th century astronomer Edmond Halley. This ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

NEW YORK — A newly discovered green comet tracked by telescopes has likely broken apart as it swung by the sun, dashing hopes ...