A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies.

A new study suggests that the origin of Pluto's largest moon was quite different than our own. Here's what you need to know.

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

Jupiter is huge when it comes to planets in our solar system, but it turns out there's actually an upper limit when it comes ...

The newcomer replacing Pluto presently goes by “Planet Nine.” If and when it finally shows up, it will get the honor of a ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

"We were definitely surprised by the 'kiss' part of kiss-and-capture. There hasn't really been a kind of impact before where ...

Behold, the giants! The Hubble Space Telescope has completed a decade of observing Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

Eris was discovered. It was considered the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system until a year later when Pluto was ...

On January 5 1933, construction began on California’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge. At the time of its opening, it was both the ...

New research underscores the physics of potential oceans on moons like Europa and Enceladus where aliens could hide ...

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016 ...