Every planet in the Solar System has its idiosyncrasies, but Uranus is, truly, one of a kind. Not only is...
In our limited experience, comet 2I/Borisov is one of a kind. It was discovered in August 2019, on a trajectory...
The near-Earth object was thought to pose a slight risk of impacting Earth in 2068, but now radar observations have...
Buried beneath 20 kilometers of ice, the subsurface ocean of Enceladus—one of Saturn’s moons—appears to be churning with currents akin...
Strange things are afoot in the Milky Way. According to a new analysis of Gaia satellite data, the closest star...
According to reports in The Astronomer’s Telegram, a star in the region of the constellation of Cassiopeia has just gone nova,...
A U.S. federal agency is considering as evidence a former Tesla employee’s complaint about how the company managed and communicated...
The largest asteroid to pass by Earth this year has made its closest approach, posing no threat of a cataclysmic...
It’s 2021, and we finally don’t have to worry quite so much about our spacecraft getting lost in interstellar space....
The largest asteroid to pass by Earth this year will swing closest on Sunday, giving astronomers a rare chance for...
It collided with Jupiter in 1994, but Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 still apparently has things to teach us about the Solar...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a view of changes in Saturn’s vast and turbulent atmosphere as the planet’s...
