Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

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A waxing gibbous moon and the ringed planet Saturn will enlighten our sky for treat-or-treaters this Halloween.

A scientist spotted an asteroid hiding in the sun's glare that orbits the sun in just 128 days, making it the second fastest ...

What began with tragedy ended in triumph. This is the untold story of the European Space Agency's pioneering 25-year Cluster ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...

Analyses of its emissions using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory indicate that the interstellar comet probably has a very different structure than comets in the solar system. Hydroxyl compounds ...

Click here for the original audio and to read a book excerpt. More than 350,000 American kids are now wards of the state, meaning the government has assumed the parental role for these foster children ...

On Wednesday morning, students at Willie Mae and Ecomet Burley Primary School had an out-of-this-world experience.

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have uncovered a surprising quantum effect inside an organic material, something once thought impossible outside metals. The team found that a special ...