Inspired by the half-human, half-horse creatures that are part of Ancient Greek mythology, the field of astronomy has its own...
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has identified new clues about the surface of Pluto’s largest moon. It detected for the first...
Stargazers will have the chance to spot what could be the most impressive comet of the year over the coming...
The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy provides a preview of one...
Since the first sighting of the first-discovered and largest asteroid in our solar system was made in 1801 by Giuseppe...
A comet is expected to risk having its tail clipped on Friday by flying perilously close to the sun, promising...
Over six missions to the moon, from 1969 to 1972, Apollo astronauts collected more than 800 pounds of lunar rock...
Asteroid Ryugu possibly did not travel as far from its place of origin to its current near-Earth orbit as previously...
Earth will capture a miniature, “second moon” this week, according to NASA scientists. The new moon is actually a tiny...
Solar wind is a never-ending stream of charged particles coming from the sun. Rather than a constant breeze, this wind...
In a new study, a team of researchers suggests that 4 billion years ago, plate tectonics likely looked closer to...
Long ago, flowing wind and water shaped Mars’s malleable sand and sediment into dunes, ripples and other landscape patterns, called...
