Around 7:15 am on June 30 in 1908, during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II, an object from space entered Earth's atmosphere over ...

Here’s how to see the year’s most-intense meteor shower, a blood-red lunar eclipse and Saturn’s refreshed rings this summer.

As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, the history of the solar system tells its own story of ...

A gas giant planet called WD 1856b, orbiting the burned-out core of a dead, sun-like star. “It was unlike any other exoplanet ...

International Asteroid Day is nigh. Held every June 30, the occasion marks what is thought to be the biggest asteroid impact ...

Swipe Down and Turn Up the Sound to Hear the Full Experience. Space is often described as silent. With no atmosphere to carry ...

With about 6,300 exoplanets discovered so far and more than 10,000 candidates awaiting confirmation, it’s easy to forget the ones that started it all: the very first exoplanets discovered and ...

The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with unruly orbits are coming into view, revealing hints of a surprising past – and the origin of Saturn's ...

3I/ATLAS was described as the third confirmed interstellar object after ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov, but the script says it did not behave like either of them. It passed within about 28 million ...

Mankind is still a long way off from colonizing other planets, but that hasn't stopped our quest to learn more about what mysteries lay beyond the boundaries of planet Earth. Despite our progress ...

June 5, 2026 Scientists have proposed a new method for finding tightly bound supermassive black hole pairs by searching for stars that flash repeatedly as their light is magnified by the black holes’ ...