Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Nov. 17: The Leonid Meteor Shower should be best from 1 a.m. to dawn. Under dark sky conditions, the Leonids exhibit a maximum of about 10 to 15 meteors per hour. Nov. 5: Full hunter supermoon — ...

Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...

Our galaxy's most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans ...

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Astronomers have identified a small but significant possibility that a Neptune-sized planet is quietly orbiting within the ...

The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moons, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.

OUR much-loved astrologer Meg sadly died in 2023 but her column will be kept alive by her friend and protégée . Read on to ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar-winning war epic with Chris Pratt returns to streaming charts alongside the director's new release, A ...

A 3-billion-year-old white dwarf, the core of a dead star, consumed an exoplanet from its former planetary ... kind of disturbance — perhaps a gravitational nudge from another planet — knocked the ...