Seeing a daytime fireball is a rare occurrence: Fireballs are easier to view at night, but must be much brighter to be visible during the day, the American Meteor Society says. It’s also “quite rare” ...

Together, DART and Hera lay the foundations for future planetary protection missions. Focusing on asteroids that could pose harm to our planet, these missions require planning and execution at short ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shines in the sharpest view yet captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, helping astronomers ...

The best time to see the Perseid meteor shower this year will be early in the morning Wednesday, a few hours before the sun ...

The James Webb Space Telescope have found evidence of massive planets capable of forming their own planetary systems — ...

Is it an alien spaceship or an ancient comet? That’s the question puzzling UFO enthusiasts, NASA, and the European Space ...

Scientists created methanetetrol in the lab, revealing new possibilities for space chemistry and prebiotic processes.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has snapped images of a recently discovered interstellar visitor hurtling through our solar ...

The light echoes we see in the sky can take years or even centuries to reach us. What is a light echo? At any given moment in ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says Perseverance's new image is "one of the sharpest panoramas of its mission so far." ...

The intense proximity to its star exposes BD+05 4868 b to extreme temperatures capable of melting rock. According to Dr. Hon, ...

Aerosols, small particles in the atmosphere like salt and dust, may offset a third of human-caused climate warming, though their influence is fading.