The interior of asteroid Vesta has been shown not to be a protoplanet after all, meaning that new explanations for its origin ...

Astronomers are once again getting excited about a rare nova that could appear in the night sky anytime from now into the ...

From cosmic radiation to crushing isolation, the journey to Mars presents a web of interlinked dangers. NASA’s Human Research ...

Recent discoveries have challenged previous assumptions about the space near Earth, revealing a potential population of ...

HERE’S a question: do you know what happens to pee in space? If yes, urine with a chance of nailing this quiz. If not, you ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, ...

A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the ...

Newton’s law says the force of attraction between a planet such as Earth and another object, such as the moon, depends on the ...

An international team used 40 years' worth of data from two space probes to track down what they believe are signs of this ...

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an ...