New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing ...

Astronomers are uncovering new insights into exoplanetary atmospheres, and a recent study on WASP-107 b has turned ...

Billions of years ago, in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, two icy worlds collided. Rather than destroying each other in a cosmic ...

Billions of years ago, in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, two icy worlds collided. Rather than destroying each ...

The love story between Pluto and Charon may have started with a kiss. A new study suggests the dwarf planet and its scarcely smaller moon likely came together in a collision that saw them conjoined ...

A solar eclipse crossed North America. Two robotic landers reached the lunar surface, largely intact. The most powerful ...

Our species called this latest 366-day journey around the sun “2024” and packed into it a ton of astronomical and spaceflight ...

On January 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. Eris is just slightly smaller than Pluto, and it orbits the sun about three times farther ...

Beachside spectators have monitored the rocket and Launch Complex 36 pre-launch activities on the horizon for weeks, ...

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.

A year of discovery awaits, with missions poised to reveal new insights about our home planet, solar system, galaxy, and ...

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