NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft has captured breathtaking images of Earth as it passed by the planet on September 23, 2025, ...

Pluto's largest moon, Charon, likely formed through a capture event in the early, crowded Kuiper Belt. Three-body encounters ...

Moon pictures from Monday night. Shot from Drift Wood beach in Lusby, MD https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Moon#/media/File:500px_photo_38644816.jpeg ...

Cutting-edge simulations show that Enceladus’ plumes are losing 20–40% less mass than earlier estimates suggested. The new ...

Back on planet Earth, and deep inside a pitch-black, sulfuric cave on the Albanian-Greek border, we reported on a study that ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft captured images of the Moon's surface on Oct 16, 2022, after flying by the Earth for its first of ...

In the low-grade lens of the TV cameras, between 1969 and 1972, the men who walked the moon were transmogrified into low-gravity Cold ...

Astronomers have long described black holes as cosmic traps so powerful that nothing — not even a beam of light — can claw its way free. Yet even these extreme objects have limits, and scientists say ...

These missions will focus on major frontiers such as the origins of the universe, the origin of space weather, and the start of life, officials said at a press conference held on Monday about the ...

​The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas has been getting a lot of attention online, especially as it moves closer to the inner Solar System before Christmas. Many people have shared worries, questions, and ...

In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini pointed some of the earliest telescopes at Saturn and made a surprising ...

Avi Loeb identifies a 13th anomaly suggesting interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is targeting Jupiter. Explore the evidence for the ...