The James Webb Space Telescope captured a colorful portrait of a nearby stellar cradle, revealing a wealth of insights about ...

Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—pose a risk to humans when they fall to ...

Comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) will pass close to the Sun on January 20, 2026, in a brief but powerful solar encounter that will ...

Here's how to see the celestial pairing.

C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) brightened significantly ahead of its close approach to the sun.

In astronomy, an occultation is when a celestial body or object — like the moon or a planet — passes in front of a distant ...

In the bigger picture, "down" could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.

A company called Reflect Orbital wants to illuminate the Earth after sunset with orbital sky mirrors, raising alarm bells.

Stargazers are about to have a chance to spot Saturn and the moon sharing a section of the night sky in what's known as a ...

Space debris entering the Earth’s atmosphere moves faster than the speed of sound and it's hard to predict where it will ...

Researchers present a novel way to track errant space debris as it falls to Earth in near-real-time, according to a new study. Their method uses ground-based seismic sensors. Over the last several ...