A decade ago, scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) had just wrapped up the yearslong process of building a comet-chasing spacecraft named after ... and unique auroras up close to discovering ...

NASA's venerable asteroid-hunting spacecraft is no more. The NEOWISE spacecraft from NASA, which surveyed 3,000 near-Earth ...

On Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will complete its final Venus gravity assist maneuver, passing within ...

A recently discovered comet that scientists and amateur astronomers hoped would be visible on Halloween was in an orbit a … ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit, known for his long-exposure photographs from the International Space Station (ISS), recently ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the ...

The so-called "Halloween comet" vaporized as it flew within 1 million miles of the sun on Monday, its destruction captured by ...

Comets have long been seen as omens and portents, and it's easy to understand why. They first appear as faint smudges of light in the sky, sometimes fading soon after and sometimes becoming brighter ...

In other words, it was a treasure chest moving at 27,000 miles per hour and sizzling at a temperature half that of the sun’s surface ... come from within our planet or was it delivered to Earth by ...

Every 80 years, a violent explosion makes the T Coronae Borealis star system visible with the naked eye for about one week.