Get your coat, grab a warm drink, and step outside. The December night sky brings a spectacular lineup of planets, meteors ...

For every rule in the cosmos, there is a spectacular exception. While most planets orbit in a neat plane, Pluto tumbles at a wild angle and asteroids from a failed world zip between Mars and Jupiter.

Early this year, a surprise space rock made headlines around the globe when the International Asteroid Warning Network ...

I nterstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth this month, whizzing by at 270 million kilometers (168 million miles) away, putting on a show for anyone equipped even with a small ...

A rare combination of astronomical events is capturing attention across the scientific community and among skywatchers this month as NASA tracks the interstellar visitor Comet 3I/ATLAS during its ...

The Town of Fountain Hills, along with Night Sky Tourist Star Dudes and the Fountain Hills Dark Sky Association, have ...

"I'm becoming much more optimistic that we may be able to find life beyond Earth, even in our own solar system." ...

In one such incident, recent reports claim that asteroid Bennu, a space rock that was orbiting the sun millions of kilometers ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks ...

As the night grows long and the winter solstice approaches, there’s a host of astronomical events to watch out for, including ...

A full moon at its closest point to Earth: December opens this week with a full moon, dubbed the “Cold Moon,” that also ...