There’s a lot to see in the night sky — the familiar Moon, stars and planets. But there’s the unexpected, too — something ...

While these objects have some similarities, there are crucial differences that can help us work out what just passed over our heads.

The mission, scheduled for this year, is a significant milestone in the development of space-based solar power systems. If ...

Evidence is mounting that a secret lies beneath the dusty red plains of Mars, one that could redefine our view of the Red ...

Like meteors, space junk travels at vast speeds as it travels through the atmosphere and it begins burning up spectacularly.

The work that we’re doing is really important because warning time is everything,” says Danica Remy of the B612 Foundation in ...

A meteorite impact in Scotland happened 990 million years ago, not 1.2 billion as previously thought, possibly influencing ...

The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is expected to plunge uncontrolled back to Earth within ...

The Soviet Union launched the spacecraft known as Kosmos-482 in 1972, one of a series of Venus missions. But it never made it ...

They add: "The asteroid's orbit around the Sun sees it safely pass Earth several times in just a few years before ...