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 ...

Around 66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to a fiery end. An asteroid about 7 miles (12 kilometers) wide, ...

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

A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...

SKYWATCH: This year marks the 50th anniversary of the discovery, just inside Jupiter’s orbit, of Kohoutek, a comet synonymous ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere and sent fiery fragments shooting to the ground, gathering new information a ...

Europa, Jupiter’s frozen moon, is one of the most promising places in the solar system to harbor life, with a vast hidden ...

On Sept. 14, 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 2 -- known informally as Lunik 2 -- became the first Earth-launched space vehicle to ...

“Based on the Juno radio occultations, we find that the size of Jupiter is smaller, more oblate, because at the equator, the ...

To avoid this scenario, Makadia's team plotted the best spots on an asteroid's surface to avoid the keyhole. Their technique ...

I sure picked a lousy time to have a cold! In addition to the big Palmer's farewell blowout, a mess of great touring acts are ...

ZAMBRANO. WELL, NEW DETAILS TODAY ABOUT THAT DEADLY PLANE CRASH ON THE NAVAJO NATION THAT KILLED ALL ON BOARD. WE ARE LEARNING THAT A WITNESS SAW IT HIT THE GROUND. THEY WERE ABOUT A QUARTER MILE AWAY ...