On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the ...

While on a shark research expedition off the coast of Tenerife, marine biologists said they captured the first images of an adult black seadevil anglerfish alive near the ocean’s surface.

Einstein predicted the existence of gravitationally-warped rings of light in 1915. Now, a new one has been discovered just a ...

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying ...

Watch a bright Moon dominate the sky, trace the Winter Hexagon, and continue enjoying the evening parade of planets in the ...

A Month of Bright Planets Venus blazes at its brightest for the year after sunset, then Mars and Jupiter to rule the night ...

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

The Juno mission has detected exceptionally intense volcanic activity on Io, one of Jupiter's moons. Scientists from NASA's ...

The Juno mission has discovered remarkably strong activity on Jupiter's moon, Io. The hot spot emits eruptions with energy ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

“The Falcon launch had never crossed my mind. I almost concluded it was an actual NEO (near-Earth object) and stopped looking, but I asked around on the Minor Planet Mailing List just to erase my ...