When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

The eruption released energy six times greater than all Earth's power plants combined, exceeding 80,000 trillion watts.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has uncovered an immense volcanic hot spot on Jupiter’s moon Io, surpassing any previously recorded ...

A scoop of dust from an ancient time capsule hurtling through space has forced a rethink of how inert matter became all that ...

"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically thought of as 'metal' are vaporized into the atmosphere." ...

NASA is keeping a close watch on three asteroids making near-Earth approaches today. One of them, named 2025 CF, will pass within just 77,200 miles of our planet-roughly one-third ...

The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a supernova-hosting galaxy located about 600 million light-years ...

Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Fascinating Cosmic Occurrence 'Blue Lurker' Star System 2,800 Light-Years From Earth In a ...

Researchers have made a potentially crucial breakthrough in solar science that could help predict solar flares with greater ...

More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun can solve mysteries from the behaviour of individual ...

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...