On December 8, 1990, the NASA Galileo spacecraft experienced what has been dubbed a "flyby anomaly" as it flew past the Earth ...

Earth has a new “mini- moon ” after an asteroid has joined our orbit. The object, known as 2024 PT5, has been chasing after ...

The agency will invest approximately $5.2 billion in the entire life of the mission, which spans nearly two decades, beginning in 2015 and ending in 2034, according to a press release from NASA's Jet ...

Europa Clipper mission will travel 1.8 billion miles to explore Europa. It will investigate the possibility of life beneath ...

A star's close flyby billions of years ago possibly influenced the solar system's architecture, leading to unusual orbits of trans-Neptunian objects and explaining the origin of Jupiter and Saturn’s ...

Although most potentially habitable worlds orbit red dwarf stars, we know larger and brighter stars can harbor life. One ...

Beginning on Sunday, the planet will capture an asteroid sailing nearby, drawing it in for one loop around Earth before ...

Autumn brings longer, cooler and clearer nights. Summer’s bright constellations and dense star clouds of the Milky Way give ...

Cornell University astronomers have looked into the world of Io, Jupiter's fiery moon known for its intense volcanic activity ...

Photos from the Juno probe show a new volcano on Io, a moon of Jupiter. As observed through satellite monitoring, the ...

Photos from the Juno probe show a new volcano on Io, a moon of Jupiter. The volcanic complex has developed over the last 27 ...