NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers) ...

To map out the best nights for skywatching, we turned to three seasoned stargazers to tell us about the best nights of the ...

What they found was surprising: the inner Oort Cloud seems to form a spiral disk, stretching about 15,000 astronomical units (AU) long. 1 AU is the distance between the Sun and the Earth (149.4 ...

New research suggests the Oort Cloud may have a spiral structure like a mini galaxy. Supercomputer models reveal its ...

Industry watchers assert that Comet could change how information is consumed online and that the Search ecosystem will change ...

Chinese spaceflight activities have been on pause in recent weeks due to the annual Spring Festival and New Lunar Year ...

The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...

Stretching between 2,000 and 5,000 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun, the Oort Cloud is thought to be the birthplace of ...

The NEO Surveyor mission will be launched on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Florida in September 2027 at the earliest. It will conduct a five-year baseline survey to identify two-thirds of the unknown ...

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. Whats ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...