As Mars approaches opposition this month, it will become a dazzling spectacle in the night sky. See it at its best now, or ...

Alinda is one of the five largest near-Earth asteroids, coming closer than 9.3 million miles until the year 2200.

Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there.

Planet X, also called Planet Nine, is a hypothetical planetary body seven times the mass of Earth lurking behind Pluto. If ...

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way.

This "kiss-and-capture" event offers a new understanding of how moons are captured and helps scientists learn more about how ...

Kevin added that they designed the crystal structure of three of the strongest materials, diamond, graphene, and titanium.

In our solar system, Earth is one of only three worlds that sees temperatures above 32 degrees Fahrenheit, while other ...

The newcomer replacing Pluto presently goes by “Planet Nine.” If and when it finally shows up, it will get the honor of a ...

J anuary 5, 2005, is an astronomical anniversary that is not really marked but should be. It saw the discovery of dwarf ...

Funding in India’s space sector, a key part of the country’s ambitions to become a global superpower, plummeted by 55% in ...

On January 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. Eris is just slightly smaller than Pluto, and it orbits the sun about three times farther ...