The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

A GIANT asteroid that risks crashing into the Moon could be nuked before it makes impact. Scientists are looking into the ...

A small asteroid has been quietly following the Earth around the sun for decades, and this "quasi-moon" is expected to stick ...

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

My favorite planet, besides the one I live on, is on the rise in the low eastern Pottsville sky during evening twilight. It’s ...

My favorite planet, besides the one I live on, is on the rise in the low eastern sky during evening twilight. It’s Saturn and ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, our corner of space was basically just a boring cloud of gas and dust floating […] ...

If Elephant Rocks whets your appetite for geological wonders, consider extending your journey to nearby Johnson’s Shut-Ins State Park or Taum Sauk Mountain State Park for more of Missouri’s surprising ...

The Walking Dunes Trail takes you through a rare inland dune field where the sand is constantly shifting, creating an almost desert-like landscape in the middle of coastal Delaware. It’s like someone ...

NOAA's GOES-19 satellite may have captured the first natural solar eclipse from space, with the moon's odd path explained by a spacecraft maneuver.

Researchers are discussing 2025 PN7, a small celestial body that's following a similar orbital path to our planet's without being gravitationally tied to Earth ...

On Sept. 24, 2025, NASA launched two new missions to study the influence of the Sun on the solar system, with further missions scheduled for 2026 and beyond.