A Chinese rocket launch started the week with a Chang Zheng 12 (CZ-12) launching from Commercial Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) at ...

Olympus Mons on Mars is the tallest mountain in the solar system, towering nearly three times higher than Mount Everest.

Stephen Kane, a professor of planetary astrophysics at UC Riverside, was skeptical when he read recent studies that showed ...

Living in Minnesota, Brett Ashbach, 42, and his wife Laura, 39, have always embraced the beauty — and the extremes — of all ...

The unusual cosmic lump — dubbed 2025 MN 45, 2,300 feet in diameter and located in the Main Asteroid Belt between the orbits ...

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...

The space rock, known as "2026 AJ" and 40 feet in diameter, is hurtling toward our planet at around 20,500 miles per hour.

An artist’s illustration depicts 2025 MN45—the fastest-rotating asteroid with a diameter over 500 meters that scientists have ...

Astronomers analyzing data from Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter ...

The first four of these saucers were sent aloft on December 18th, carried in an Electron launcher built by Rocket Lab, a ...

Astronomers analyzing data from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and ...

Earth, Mars, and Jupiter are the focus this first week of 2026, with stunning views of the Martian surface, craters, and ...