Called Kepler-51, the Sun-like yellow dwarf star was found in 2012 to have three exoplanets in its orbit; each, it would turn ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has been breaking records since the day it launched as the fastest space mission in history. Now, ...

Venus will pass to the north of the much-fainter bluish star Regulus (in Leo, the Lion) on the morning of Sept. 19; the planet and star will appear low in the east-northeast predawn sky, separated by ...

An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied Chiron, a centaur orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune, ...

The Parker Solar Probe will swoop just 6.1 million kilometers above the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. Scientists are ...

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

19, 2024 — Scientists have unveiled groundbreaking research on the origins of lunar water, offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar ...

New studies led by researchers at the University of Central Florida offer for the first time a clearer picture of how the ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft zipped just 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) above the volcanic world Io in 2024. The extraterrestrial ...

Anthony Galdamez served in the Air Force and taught for years. Today, he works at Kiewit Luminarium and volunteers with NASA.

For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the ...