Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu are helping scientists uncover secrets about how the outer regions of our solar system ...

Asteroid Apophis, or "God of Chaos," will pass close to Earth on April 13, 2029. This rare encounter offers scientists a ...

Today: While Stonehenge is an ancient burial ground visited by religious people for thousands of years, MIThenge is an ...

But NASA wants to show that faster-than-sound travel is possible without the annoyance of the boom, which is where its X-59 ...

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

Rather than being skeptical of technology and trying to slow down its adoption in society, we should do what we can to ...

Today: The two meteor showers centered in the constellation Taurus peak this week and next. That means there will be ...

As the temperatures drop and nights lengthen, we're now able to see the beautiful Pleiades star cluster rising in the east in ...