Astronomers have observed circumstellar disks as well as planets in orbits around stars other than the Sun before, but never a planet being assembled in a circumstellar disk. The direct imaging of ...

A mysterious celestial body speeding through the solar system and shedding metals was captured in July by the Very Large ...

The discovery is pushing researchers to rethink how the sun’s outer layers behave and how energy moves through its atmosphere.

On this month’s episode of The Sky Above, host Leah Pezzetti discusses upcoming astronomical events and also the race to space.

A UCLA astronomer who leads planetary defense missions for NASA says avoiding asteroid impacts is “a problem we can ...

These so-called Venus co-orbital asteroids are currently undetected because of their alignment in the sky but could one day drift into Earth’s path, at least according to simulations combining ...

This meteor shower is noted for its bright, fast meteors that leave trails that can linger in the sky for a few minutes.

October is a star-studded month with two meteor showers, winter constellations and a good chance to see a trio of green ...

The ISS feels impossibly far at 250 miles up, but lunar missions go 240,000 miles out - over 1000x the distance. It's a perspective shift that redefines what 'space travel' means.

It rains on the sun, and thanks to researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA), we finally know ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is repurposing its fleet of spacecraft around Mars and the Sun to track 3I/ATLAS, a rare ...

These Martian dunes in Mars' northern hemisphere were captured from above by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its ...