“Impact flashes on the moon are very common,” University of Colorado Boulder astrophysical and planetary sciences professor ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, an enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects ...

Earlier this month, Google researchers released a paper about “Project Suncatcher,” the company’s research “moonshot” to ...

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

NASA released images of an interstellar comet flying past Mars, and scientists expressed doubt about the possibility that it ...

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