Every so often, Jupiter's strong gravity sends an asteroid hurtling through the solar system, sometimes towards Earth. Last ...

For anyone in Hawaiʻi this weekend, the sky offers a rare show. Saturn, the ringed giant, will rise bright in the evening and ...

Astronomers are racing to study 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet whose strange behavior reveals new clues about how other ...

Dwarf planet 2023 KQ14, Ammonite, has a stable orbit that challenges the hypothesis of the mysterious Planet Nine.

The Jump Space launch has arrived, bringing squad-based interstellar action that blends Helldivers 2 and No Man's Sky into a meaty package.

Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...

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 ...

Did you see the bright star next to the moon? That was Venus, and part of a conjunction between the moon, Venus and the star ...

"The complexity of the exo-Neptunian landscape provides offers a unique window onto the processes involved in the formation ...

By capturing the same thing from very different perspectives, a NASA astronaut and an intrepid photographer create a whole ...

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases the size of the Moon’s orbit. This means that the Moon gets slightly farther ...