Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years as well as a ...

Researchers have confirmed the mass of a free-floating planet thanks to a lucky convergence of ground- and space-based ...

Far beyond Neptune, astronomers have finally confirmed a compact clump of icy worlds hiding inside the Kuiper Belt, a feature ...

Just days into the New Year, on January 6, NASA will begin spacewalks outside the International Space Station to prepare for ...

Our 2026 skywatching guide includes a total solar eclipse, a "blood moon" and a festive supermoon. Here are the dates you ...

Here's how the astronomical phenomenon influences our planet—from the length of our seasons to the way Earth moves through ...

Roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth, a gigantic disk of gas and dust is swirling around a young star and giving rise to ...

Bright full moons, dazzling meteor shower displays and remarkable total eclipses will give stargazers plenty of reasons to ...

Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...