A mere 30 minutes after the sun set on Monday, the sky was again greeted by a streak of light when SpaceX launched its Falcon ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently made a final observation of asteroid 2024 YR4 before it drifted out of range. This rare data update refined the asteroid’s projected path and revealed a ...

Shortly after astronomers detected asteroid 2024 YR4 on December 27, 2024, they realized it posed no threat to Earth. But it ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken another look at the potential "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 and found its chances ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant celestial body that may be a new dwarf planet, orbiting the Sun from more than twice the distance of Pluto. Found by researchers at the Institute for Advanced ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

Amazon's next group of Kuiper satellites could soon launch from Florida, propelling the company closer to providing internet service to customers.

This Friday, June 20, at 9:42 pm CST is the official start of astronomical summer and marks the longest day of the year. The ...

Webb has captured a frigid exoplanet in a wildly tilted orbit, revealing a system shaped by past planetary violence and ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has spotted an “abnormal, chaotic, and strange" planetary system 60 light-years from Earth.

The exoplanet — named 14 Herculis c, or 14 Her c for short — orbits a sunlike star about 60 light-years from Earth in the ...

Look for them around 10 p.m. local daylight time, roughly one-quarter up in the western sky. In addition to their closeness ...