The Parker Solar Probe will swoop just 6.1 million kilometers above the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. Scientists are ...

When you look up in the night sky, our moon is unmissable.Just like Earth, it's round and has a solid, rocky surface. But is ...

Pluto's moon: NASA's New Horizons captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon just before the spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015. Thanks For Reading!

Amateurs managed to receive signals from Voyager 1 using a converted historical radio telescope. This was made possible by a ...

With every aspect of Roman life having a specific deity to call upon, it can be tricky to make sense of the ancient pantheon ...

Researchers at the University of Central Florida have revolutionized our understanding of the solar system's formation with ...

TNOs are small bodies, or 'planetesimals,' orbiting the sun beyond Pluto. They never accreted into planets ... The research was supported by NASA through a grant from the Space Telescope Science ...

Summer 2015 was marked by a unique astronomical event, which occurs approximately once in ... the history of astronomy. The ...

When I asked readers on social media for suggestions about the coolest things they’ve seen in spaceflight during the last 25 ...

The spacecraft, located more than 24 billion kilometres away, was feared lost to the cosmic ocean after decades of travel. But, as Andrew Griffins writes, thanks to a daring feat of human ingenuity ...

Discover how probing the components of the half-asteroid, half-comet hybrids reveals that carbon dioxide was present during ...

Among the finds is an object thought to be an asteroid from the main belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.