Tossing a bad guy into the Sun sounds simple enough, but orbital mechanics make it a far trickier task than you'd expect.

Comet C/2023 P1, Nishimura visible from Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Space.com Editorial: Another daylight ...

If, for some reason, we as a society executed villains by firing them into the Sun, this is how an astronomers says we would ...

"Similar to the asteroid belt, the Kuiper Belt is a region of leftovers from the solar system's early history. Like the ...

Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

Telescopes on Earth, along with multiple cameras in space, have captured a whole gallery of new imagery of this alien visitor ...

Is there a full moon tonight? Here's what to know about today's special moon phase and when to look up for the next meteor ...

A two-decade-old NASA telescope is on an unstable orbit, and there is a 90 percent chance that it might come burning down in ...

SpaceX's Transporter-15 mission is poised to deliver more than 100 spacecraft to Earth orbit. A Falcon 9 rocket will launch ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the ...

The moon was 252,706 miles from Earth’s center at 2:46 a.m., roughly four hours before the new moon phase begins. This distance marks one of the four largest separations between Earth and its natural ...