Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter all congregate in the morning sky, joined by the Waning Moon and the bright stars of Gemini this ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, an asteroid caught by Earth's gravity might have fragmented, creating a temporary ring ...

Now that its ancient journey is over, the rock begins a new chapter on Earth. Officially named the McDonough Meteorite, it is ...

Astronomers find a new moon orbiting Uranus, boosting its known satellites to 29 using the James Webb Space Telescope.

A century from now, a pair of spacecraft might boldly go where no human-made object has gone before: a black hole. Here's how ...

The nearest black hole that we know of at the moment is 1,560 light-years away. There’s probably a black hole lurking within ...

The tiny planet Mercury stands 19° west of the Sun in the early-morning sky, located in Cancer near the Beehive Cluster.

One of the last few Titan shadow transits of the year takes place overnight tonight, with several of Saturn’s other moons ...

Starship flight 10, A USSF mission, a NASA/SpaceX cargo run to the ISS, and multiple Starlink deployments are all launching ...

Prior to flybys, scientists used mathematical laws and observation to determine the characteristics of the planets.

During the total solar eclipse of Aug. 18, 1868, two astronomers, Pierre Jules César Janssen of France and J. Norman Lockyer ...

August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.