When considering the unnamed major features of all the moons, asteroids, and comets in our solar system, there are still a ...

Recently, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) approved a new naming scheme for the features on the asteroid designated as Donald Johanson, which is the primary target of NASA's "Lucy" mission.

The small asteroid, located in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, was visited by Lucy on April 20, 2025, during a ...

Though the rings appear solid from afar, they’re actually a dynamic, rotating system of icy debris. One theory suggests they ...

NASA and IAU have named a feature on asteroid Donald Johanson after India’s Narmada Valley, honouring its fossil heritage.

The James Webb Space Telescope cannot observe Earth directly. It is too bright and could damage the telescope. However, ...

Houston, we have a doppelgänger. Timex once again releases a collection of affordable watches that look like icons form ...

The IAU (International Astronomical Union), an international non-governmental research organization and global naming authority for celestial objects ...

SummaryNASA's new Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 23 to ...

The September 21 partial solar eclipse will be visible in Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica, but not in the US. People ...

We all have a mental list of things we'd love to do in our lifetime. Yet, life has a way of getting in the way, leaving many ...