On Christmas Eve, a NASA spacecraft will pass closer to the center of our solar system than any human-made object ever has.

Earth is hit by asteroids all the time, but to avoid severe damages in the future NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...

For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the ...

As JWST continues its observations, scientists expect to uncover more details about the early stages of planetary formation ...

Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the most volcanic world in the solar system.

Dark comets are comets that are so small, fast and/or chemically rare that they are difficult to see from Earth ...

Asteroid 2024 XS3, a small Apollo asteroid, safely passed Earth at a distance of 3.3 million kilometers on December 18, 2024.

Astronomers are closely tracking asteroid 2024 XN1, which is set to pass by Earth on December 24, 2024, just in time for Christmas Eve.

NASA is investigating "dark comets," mysterious celestial bodies lacking the bright tails typical of comets. With ...

The James Webb Space Telescope uncovers frozen water in a distant protoplanetary disk, revealing insights into the origins of ...

This research lays the groundwork for NASA’s upcoming Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission, the first space telescope ...