A comet from another star system is swinging by Mars as a fleet of spacecraft trains its sights on the interstellar visitor.

Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar visitor to the Solar System, will get closest to one particular planet in the Solar System. Bad news: it is not Earth, so we can’t get the best view of ...

The asteroid is projected to come within 865,000 miles of Earth—nearly five times closer than the orbit of the moon.

Astronomers have identified an enormous "growth spurt" in a so-called rogue planet. Unlike the planets in our solar system, ...

Using the European Southern Observatory 's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have caught it pulling in gas and ...

A free-floating planet has been seen devouring astonishing amounts of matter, hinting that stars and planets are more alike ...

Astronomers have observed a massive growth rate in a free-floating rogue planet that’s gobbling up gas and dust at a record rate of 6.6 billion tons per second.

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

For years, scientists staring at Mars through the eyes of orbiting spacecraft noticed something strange: a mysterious signal in the light spectrum that didn’t match any known mineral. That puzzling ...

Every year, October-the month during which the sun moves through by partnership-oriented, social butterfly Libra and magnetic ...

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

With more and more areas able to witness the majesty of the aurora borealis, people are asking how to take photos of the norther lights on an iPhone.