Computer simulations suggest that Mars' puzzling moons, Phobos and Deimos, may have been formed from debris created when a ...

The galaxy got its unusual name because when the Hubble Space Telescope snapped a photo of it 20 years ago, it resembled a ...

"The configuration that we end up with within the solar system is definitely not something that is indeed common," Chen told ...

Findings resolve years of debate and offer new insights into the Moon's evolution and the Solar System's history.

This 2013 astronaut photo shows a giant eye-shaped impact crater in the Sahara Desert that is slowly being circled by ...

This is the Crab Pulsar, and within its radio pulses is a strange signal that has puzzled astronomers for years. Called the ...

Adam Carlson caught a fine photo of October’s comet, the Tsuchinshan-Atlas, named for the Chinese and South African observatories that first spotted it.

Wood exposed to space for approximately 10 months showed no change in weight and no erosion due to atomic oxygen. This ...

The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured a new image of a galaxy famously named after the Mexican hat style.

Forming an estimated 3 million years ago, the planet discovered by astronomers at the University of North Carolina is in its ...

The European Space Agency last week released four stunning high-res images that show the sun in all its fiery glory.

In a new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a galaxy named for its resemblance to a broad-brimmed Mexican hat appears more like an archery target. In Webb’s mid-infrared view of the ...