The largest solar storm in two decades hit Earth in May 2024. For several days, wave after wave of high-energy charged ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a 7-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

The next quasi-satellite in the solar system now has an official name ... are a special type of companion to celestial bodies that orbit them at relatively large distances and are mainly under ...

This occurs when the planets' positions in their elliptical orbit around the sun line make them seem like they are close in the sky. "It’s happening because of the specific orbital speeds and paths of ...

Six planets are lining up in a row from our Earthly view of the cosmos, in a spectacle that'll be visible in January through ...

Notice how they are not necessarily in a straight line from our perspective. That is because the planets orbit the sun in an ecliptic plane. This illustration is from a northern hemisphere ...

Planetary parade in January: A planetary parade is a colloquial term that applies when four or more planets line up in the night sky at once. Sky watchers will get a good view of some of the planets ...

which either blaze back to Earth or are maneuvered into a “graveyard orbit.” Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos has said he hopes planet Earth will be turned into a sort of national park.

One of the two NASA astronauts stuck in space got a much-welcome change of scenery when she stepped out for her first spacewalk after seven months in orbit. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have ...