A "potentially hazardous" Apollo-class asteroid will be making its closest pass by Earth in more than 100 years this week.

Scientists have announced the surprising discovery of oxygen and other heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The ...

A mysterious and powerful burst of radio waves reached Earth after traveling through space for 8 billion years dubbed FRB ...

Mankind began listening for signals from space over 100 years ago, searching for signs of extraterrestrial life. One captured ...

Surveyor is a $1.4-billion infrared telescope with a single mission: to hunt asteroids and comets that could pose a danger to ...

Astronomers say that the discovery provides evidence that the universe developed much faster after the Big Bang than ...

Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct images of four planets in a star system 130 ...

More than 50 years after Apollo 8’s legendary Earthrise photo, a new image from the Moon’s surface delivers a hauntingly ...

HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...

For the first time on a global scale, 20 years of observations on Mars have been condensed into a single study led by ...