Pluto is a bit of a loner. The dwarf planet is no longer considered a regular planet; it does not orbit on the same plane as ...

From Newton’s falling apple to Einstein’s curved spacetime, our understanding of gravity has come a long way, yet this ...

Earth has a number of mini-moons and quasi-moons. Mini-moons are objects that orbit our planet. But they make for fickle fans: They tend to swing around Earth for only a matter of months. One example ...

In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. Black holes are rather ...

Recently, an exoplanet just a short 15 light-years from Earth was discovered, setting the scientific community abuzz. This ...

Apophis will zoom safely past the Earth closer than the orbits of geosynchronous satellites on April 13, 2029. As well as the ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...

Abstract: In recent years, the development of Beam-Hopping (BH) technology has provided new solutions for the flexible configuration and efficient utilization of satellite resources. This technology ...

Firing a gun in space plays out very differently from that on Earth due to some bizarre physics. Here's everything that ...

A small asteroid has been quietly following Earth’s orbit for decades—unseen, unbothered and, until recently, completely ...

NASA confirms that the number of discovered exoplanets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, marking a major milestone in space research.

A massive space rock that once made its way onto a space agency's warning list for potentially dangerous objects is scheduled ...