The asteroid, spanning around 49 to 111 feet in diameter, is hurtling through space at some 42,300 miles per hour.

Jupiter and Mars are on display during May evenings. It's your last chance to grab a good view of Jupiter before it drops out ...

In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

The Milky Way is known to host a diverse array of planetary systems, providing astronomers with extensive insights into how ...

A team of astronomers poring through old astronomical data may have seen a candidate for the elusive Planet Nine – a ...

Coming up this Saturday night, May 3, the fat crescent Moon will hover next to the famous blue star Regulus. As the brightest luminary in the entire zodiac and the main star of Leo the Lion, the ...

Jupiter is our solar system’s largest planet. The two brown dwarfs are gravitationally bound and orbit near to each other – as close as just 4 per cent of the distance between Earth and the sun. The ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an ...

"These early images of Donaldjohanson are again showing the tremendous capabilities of the Lucy spacecraft as an engine of ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the ...