Second-Largest Asteroid in the Solar System May Be an Ancient Piece From a Lost Planet, Claim Scientists Space exploration ...

Using the 104-cm Sampurnanand optical telescope, Indian astronomers have performed photometric observations of an open ...

The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

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Up to 50 'shooting stars' per hour will streak through the night sky when the Eta Aquariid meteor shower peaks just before ...

ALMA observations of carbon monoxide emission from 15 protoplanetary disks reveal a stunning variety of gas structures, ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope for the largest and deepest sample of galaxy groups, some of which were up to ...

However, some astronauts said they were far from lonely when cruising through the abyss of space. Michael Collins, who ...

The space-based observatory will scan the cosmos in 102 colors we can't see to unlock the secret history of the universe.

Halley’s comet swings near Earth every 75 years. But debris left by the comet leads to two major meteor showers every year ...

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14 ...

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