Space

In the outer reaches of our Solar System, 5.7 billion kilometers from the Sun, lies the dwarf planet …

Earth is going to have its very own mini-moon from September 29 until November 25. The regular Moon’s …

Have you ever wanted to make a $150,000 gamble? If you’re right, you open a new window to …

Launched in 2011, NASA’s NEOWISE mission operated in Earth’s orbit until late last week. It detected more than …

When my colleagues and I set to work on a century-old cosmic mystery, we found an unexpected celestial …

A supermoon may sound exciting, but it’s a modest coincidence. As the Moon orbits Earth, its distance from …

Most familiar stars peacefully orbit the center of the Milky Way. However, citizen scientists working on NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet …

After 3½ years exploring Jezero Crater’s floor and river delta, the Perseverance rover will ascend to an area …

Machine learning shed new light on the formation history of our Milky Way: a surprising discovery about the …

NASA’s DART mission — Double Asteroid Redirection Test — was humanity’s first real-world planetary defense mission. In September …