Discover why Earth's farthest distance from the sun coincides with summer heat, then grab your binoculars for a week of ...

There's a new interstellar comet in the neighborhood! Known as 3I/ATLAS, this comet poses no threat to Earth – but it does ...

An asteroid discovered last year and briefly thought to be a threat to Earth has a one-in-23 chance of hitting the Moon, ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare instance of a interstellar comet speeding through the solar system. The 3I/ATLAS was first ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company’s lunar lander. NASA released the pictures Friday, two weeks after ispace’s lander ...

The two solstices and two equinoxes are simply precise moments in time when the Sun is in direct alignment with three distinct bands of latitude. Their dates can vary by a day or two each year since ...

Boaters off the coast of California got the chance to see the biggest animal on Earth and the group is calling it a “once in a lifetime” moment. On June 16, the group set out on the “misty ...

Earth is no longer at risk of a direct collision with the asteroid 2024 YR4, but an impact on the moon in 2032 could send debris hurtling towards our planet that could take out orbiting satellites ...

Thanks to a shift in its orbit, Solar Orbiter has become the first spacecraft to capture images of the Sun’s poles from outside the ecliptic. First view of the Sun’s pole On March 23, 2025, Solar ...

Another one bites the moon dust Inconveniently for impact analysts, Earth has active plate tectonics, weathering, and erosion, and these processes smooth over our planet’s record of ancient craters.

At the time of writing this article, the moon, Earth’s primary celestial satellite, has no owners. Some Bantu dialects call such entities ‘witemere’ – idle land.

A giant hole has opened in the atmosphere of the Sun, and it's blasting out a high-speed wind that is directed right at Earth. The incoming blast of solar particles is worth getting excited about: ...