A small asteroid, dubbed Earth's temporary "mini moon," has been captivating scientists. This asteroid, 2024 PT5, is not ...

The Town of Fountain Hills along with Night Sky Tourist/Star Dudes and the Fountain Hills Dark Sky Association are hosting a ...

Planet Earth is parting company with an asteroid that has been tagging along as a “mini moon” for the past two months. The harmless space rock will peel away on Monday, overcome by the stronger tug of ...

Philae's historic landing on Comet 67P in 2014 provided crucial data on the comet's surface and internal composition, despite technical setbacks. The mission revealed organic molecules and temperature ...

Magnetism itself may have given our solar system the architecture needed for habitability. A team at the University of Oxford ...

Researchers will now use historical data from various telescopes to get a clear picture of what is dust and what is actually radiation from space beyond our galaxy. “Our main goal is to create maps of ...

When comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) was first discovered in late September, it was almost immediately identified as a member of the ...

The aurora in early October followed by the appearance of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS the following week had me thinking about the rare events we observe in astronomy.

To see the planet's blue-green hue, which is caused by the absorption of sunlight from methane gas, you'll need a small ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument uses a telescope in Tucson, Arizona, to create a map of the universe's ...

What's more, scientists believe the migrating planets — primarily Jupiter — could have led to the formation of Earth's moon by destabilizing the orbit of a Mars-size ... of various types of asteroids ...

A BUS-SIZED “mini moon” is in the final days of its trip to Earth’s skies – and will soon vanish until 2055. The holidaying ...