There's a class of objects in the cosmos that are neither stars, nor are they quite planets. Astronomers used the powerful ...

Defy gravity with out-of-this-world space trivia collected from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...

A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...

On March 13-14, 2025, a total lunar eclipse or "blood moon" will be visible across the Americas and beyond. Here are some odd ...

Saturn's rings, known for their celestial beauty, will temporarily vanish next week when the planet's tilt causes them to ...

A “blood moon” total lunar eclipse will occur late Thursday night March 13 through early morning Friday March 14.

A newly identified Kuiper Belt trio, possibly only the second of its kind, could provide strong evidence that these distant ...

Once its rings vanish from sight in March 2025, Saturn will look like a pale yellow sphere through most telescopes.

Astronomers using a cutting-edge adaptive optics instrument, MagAO-X, have captured unprecedented images of young planets orbiting the star PDS 70. These "baby planets" are surrounded by dust rings ...

A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is ...

Even the icy planets in our solar system such as Neptune, Uranus or Jupiter's moon Europa, might have harboured plastic ice ...